Dr. Gerald E. Galloway, Jr.

Professor Gerald E. Galloway, Jr. joined IWR as the Institute's 2006-2007 Maass-White Visiting Scholar.  Dr. Galloway had been engaged with the Institute on a part-time basis for several years, and his appointment as Maass-White Scholar increased his visibility and interactions at IWR, as well as extended his technical influence and intellectual engagement within the USACE and the larger U.S. water resources community.

While at IWR, Professor Galloway was engaged in several national efforts to develop and infuse new approaches to U.S. water resources planning and management.  He has a particular interest in advancing flood risk and flood plain management policies, practices and research, while at the same time furthering the debate on a broad range of national water resources policy issues. In recent years, he has been especially active in national flood risk initiatives and FEMA flood hazard mapping modernization efforts, including serving as Chair of FEMA's Interagency Levee Committee.

Dr. Galloway is a Glenn L. Martin Institute Professor of Engineering at the University of Maryland's A. James Clark School of Engineering where he teaches and performs research in civil engineering.  He came to the University of Maryland following a 38 year career in the U.S. Army, retiring as Brigadier General, and eight additional years service in the federal government, most of which was associated with water resources management. He served for three years as District Engineer for the USACE in Vicksburg, MS and later, for seven years as a Presidential appointee to the Mississippi River Commission.

Professor Galloway is the former Dean of the faculty and academic programs at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, and former Dean of the academic board, United States Military Academy at West Point where he was also a professor of geography and the first head of the Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering.  In 1993 and 1994 he was assigned to the White House to lead an interagency study of the causes of the Great Mississippi River Flood of 1993 and to make recommendations concerning the nation's floodplain management program.

His federal service culminated as Secretary and Principal Advisor to the U.S. Section of the International Joint Commission, Canada and United States.

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