Committees

Future Vision Committee
Bringing together a global community of subject matter experts, DRI International has convened the Future Strategic Vision Committee, the leading global think tank on matters of operational resilience, discipline integration, and the future role of resilience professionals. This interdisciplinary group seeks to unite the profession by establishing meaningful and productive links among other professional bodies, higher education, and membership organizations.

Lyndon Bird
Chair

Patrick Alcantara
Member

Yair Amir
Member

Al Berman
Member

Ray H. Chang
Member

Linda Conrad
Member

Boris Issavi
Member

Richard Knowlton
Member

Steven Lei
Member

Eric J. McNulty
Member

David Porter
Member

Kenji Watanabe
Member

Lyndon Bird
Chair
Biography
Lyndon Bird is Chief Knowledge Officer for DRI International and chairs the Institute’s Future Vision Committee.
He has worked exclusively in business continuity since 1986 as a consultant, presenter, educator, author, and business manager. Bird has spoken at and chaired conferences throughout the world and has contributed features, articles, and interviews to most leading business and specialist publications. He has been interviewed by a wide range of broadcasters, including the BBC, Channel 4, Sky News, Bloomberg TV, and CNBC about various continuity and resilience topics. Bird helped found the Business Continuity Institute in 1994 to promote and develop the emerging BC discipline as a professional field of activity and served as Chairman and International Technical Director. He was a member of the original BS25999 Technical Committee which set the BCM framework which ultimately led to ISO22301. He was voted BCM Consultant of the Year in 2002 and later given the BCM Lifetime Award by Continuity, Insurance & Risk Magazine.
Bird is currently Editor of the Journal of Business Continuity and Emergency Planning, a member of the Advisory Board for the Crisis Management Response Journal, and a regular contributor to the US based Resilience Hub platform.