Chapter Coordinator

Dean Cameron D. Carlson

OSS Alaska Chapter Coordinator

Ph.D. PMP

Dean

College of Business and Security Management

Proud Member of  the Order of Sword and Shield since 2014

Cam serves as Dean of College of Business and Security Management here at the University of Alaska Fairbanks. He additionally is the founding Director of the Center for Arctic Security and Resilience (CASR), where he now serves as its assistant director. He retired as a Lieutenant Colonel from the US Army in 2006 after 25 years on active duty where he deployed extensively to the Middle East, Africa, Europe, Haiti and the Central Asian states supporting humanitarian assistance, non-combatant evacuation, peacekeeping as well as operations supporting the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT). 

Since retirement from the US Army, Cam has served as the Site Lead and Senior Mentor from the C4ISR training contract at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, established the Emergency Management office for the University of Alaska System, and served overseas as the Project/Deputy Project Manager for the High Threat Protection Task Order for the US Embassy, Baghdad, Iraq. He most recently was the Project Lead/Principal Investigator for the Arctic Defense Security Orientation (ADSO) as a shared initiative between USNORTHCOM and ALCOM.

He has authored and co-authored numerous articles on the Arctic region, specific to defense and human security-related issues and homeland security and emergency management education.