Art Botterell

Art Botterell is a professional emergency manager with more than four decades of experience in emergency communications, public information systems and mass media. He has served on FEMA’s national Emergency Response Team and with the California Office of Emergency Services. He has consulted to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and numerous other public-safety and emergency management agencies in the U.S. and abroad.

Mr. Botterell was the architect of the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) and a founding trustee of the non-profit Partnership for Public Warning. He is a Research Associate of the Centre for Policy Research in Science and Technology at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia. He has served on study panels for the National Academy of Sciences and on the Federal Communications Commission’s national advisory committee on cellphone alerting. He also managed technology and operations for an advanced Community Warning System for the Office of the Sheriff of Contra Costa County in Northern California.