Debra van Opstal

Debra van Opstal launched the U.S. Resilience Project after 15 years at the U.S. Council on Competitiveness where she was the SVP for Programs. She focuses on the competitiveness case for investment in risk management and capturing business best practices. She has authored many reports including Transform: The Resilient Economy; Priorities for America’s Preparedness: Best Practices from the Private Sector; and Supply Chain Solutions for Smart Grid Security and conducted the case study research for NIST on best practices in supply chain risk management. Van Opstal has served on national resilience policy groups such as CARRI Steering and the HSAC study on Electric Power Resilience. She chairs the Gerald R. Ford judging panel on excellence in reporting on national defense.