Ford Rowan

Chair, National Center for Critical Incident Analysis

As chair of the National Center for Critical Incident Analysis, Ford Rowan organizes studies of political violence and the threat of a pandemic. In his role as a crisis management consultant, Rowan has worked on the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, the Concorde crash, "mad cow disease," contaminated food recalls, SUV rollover litigation, silicone breast implants, the aftermath of the Valdez spill and five explosions at chemical plants and refineries. 

Rowan is a former national security correspondent for NBC News who covered the war in Lebanon, the Watergate trials, and Three Mile Island. He was the host of the weekly PBS program, “International Edition,” in the mid-1980s. Rowan also practiced communications law in Washington and is the author of Broadcast Fairness, an analysis of the Fairness Doctrine and Equal Time rule.