LTC 412-2018 Invitation to a Dynamic Discussion on Urban ResilieMIAMI BEACH
OFFICE OF THE CITY MANAGER
NO . LTC# LETTER TO COMMISSION
412-2018
TO: Mayor Dan Gelber and Members
DATE : July 26, 2018
SUBJECT: Invitation to a Dynamic Discussi on Urban Resilience .
I am pleased to invite you to an exciting and unique opportunity for a dynamic discussion
on urban resilience. Please join me August 9, 2018 at 1 :00 PM in the City's Manager's
large conference room for a roundtable on urban resilience with the president of the 100
Resilient Cities (100 RC) Network, Michael Berkowitz. Mr. Berkowitz will be in town for
the Resilience Accelerator work shop and he wants to meet with as many Greater Miami
and the Beaches partners as possible . This is an informal and open forum to discuss
urban resilience in general and in other cities . Th is is also an opportunity to hear his
perspective on our work to date, including the ULI advisory panel recommendations and
resilience accelerator activities for West Avenue -both funded by 100 RC.
This sunshine meeting is being advertised by the Office of the Cle rk. I look forward to
thought-provoking conversation .
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JLM/SMT
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Michael Berkowitz
President
Michael Berkowitz joined the Rockefeller Foundation in August 2013 to shape and oversee the
100 Resilient Cities. Previously, he worked at Deutsche Bank, most recently as the deputy
global head of Operational Risk Management (ORM). In that capacity he oversaw the firm's OR
capital planning efforts, served as a primary regulatory contact and connected the myriad
operational risk management efforts group-wide.
He held multiple other positions at DB, including Chief Operating Officer of Corporate Security,
Business Continuity (CSBC) and Operational Risk Management, where he had responsibility for
budgeting, operations, and global coordination across the group's six workstreams. During this
time, he also served as the head of the Bank's Protective Intelligence unit, designed to assess
and analyze security and gee-political threats to the Bank, its staff, processes and information.
Prior to December 2010, he was the CSBC head in APAC with responsibility for all business
continuity planning and alternate site operations, as well as physical security, executive and
event protection, fraud investigation and prevention, and cybercrime. Between 2005 and 2008
he had management roles for DB in Mumbai, India and New York.
Until January 2005, he was Deputy Commissioner at the Office of Emergency Management in
New York City. In this position he worked on major planning initiatives, including the New York
City Coastal Storm, Biological Terrorism and Transit Strike contingency plans.
At OEM he led an initiative to create OEM's Public-Private Emergency Planning Initiative and its
Ready New York citizen preparedness campaign. He also responded to incidents including the
1999 outbreak of West Nile Fever, Tropical Storm Floyd , major flooding in Southern Queens
(1999), the crashes of SwissAir 111 and American Airlines 587, the 2003 Northeast blackout, as
well as the 2001 anthrax incidents and the World Trade Center disaster.
Contact Michael on Twitter @berkmic.