Open AccessAdmiral Thad Allen, MPA ‘86, 23rd Commandant of the US Coast Guard
Author(s) -
Andrea Leung,
Kaitlin Welborn
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
policy perspectives
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2377-7753
pISSN - 1085-7087
DOI - 10.4079/pp.v18i0.9363
Subject(s) - coast guard , guard (computer science) , george (robot) , hurricane katrina , navy , administration (probate law) , deepwater horizon , charge (physics) , history , management , operations research , oil spill , political science , archaeology , geography , engineering , meteorology , law , art history , natural disaster , computer science , economics , environmental protection , programming language , physics , quantum mechanics
Admiral Thad Allen, the 23rd Commandant of the US Coast Guard, graduated from The George Washington University with his Master of Public Administration in 1986. Since that point, he has been in charge of the federal responses for Hurricane Katrina as well as for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Admiral Allen sat down with the Editor-in-Chief and the Managing Editor of Policy Perspectives to talk about lessons learned from his career, “dogs who hunt,” and the possibility of an Admiral Allen Twitter account.