Clifford Oliver

Dr. Oliver is the Founder and Principal of Nanticoke Global Strategies LLC (NGS) and serves as NGS’s lead technical authority. Oliver’s over thirty-five-year public safety background enables him to offer a unique perspective and extensive knowledge regarding emergency management, homeland security, and business continuity programs.

During his 30 years of federal service, he held numerous technical, managerial, and executive-level positions. Oliver, first appointed to the federal Senior Executive Service (SES) in 2001, spent twenty years as an SES serving in various management capacities with the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). In 2002, he was a founding member of DHS. He completed his federal career as the Assistant Administrator for Financial Systems at FEMA.

Oliver spent 28 years at FEMA. During the 1990s, he led numerous mitigation programs. In response to Hurricane Katrina, he led FEMA’s temporary housing mission following that installed 152,000 temporary housing units and built over 200 group sites. Other notable roles include, following the passage of the Post Katrina Emergency Management Reform Act, leading the establishment of FEMA’s national evacuation planning and execution contracts, and the effort to create a long-range view of the nation’s disaster logistics management system. As a member of the SES, he successfully tackled some of FEMA’s most significant management challenges including serving as the acting Chief Security Officer (CSO) and addressing serious management deficiencies within the Office of the CSO; establishing the Office of Professional Responsibility; leading the effort to replace the National Flood Insurance Program’s insurance IT system, and leading a similar effort to replace FEMA’s financial management system.