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Director: Neville P. Clarke, Ph.D., D.V.M.
Dr. Neville P. Clarke is director of the Department of Homeland Security National Center of Excellence on Foreign Animal and Zoonotic Disease Defense. He is founding director of the Texas A&M University System Institute for Countermeasures Against Agricultural Bioterrorism and served as interim director of the Integrative Center for Homeland Security, which links the broad resources of the multiple universities and agencies of the Texas A&M University System to address both food and agriculture and the broad homeland security agenda.
Dr. Clarke has been actively involved in agricultural biosecurity since 1996, serving as advisor to the USDA, developing new projects at Texas A&M, and participating as a member of the Defense Intelligence Agency BioChem 2020 Group, which is a panel of scientific experts that assesses vulnerabilities to terrorist activities. His area of personal research is the development and application of decision support systems to assess the impact of technology and policy options affecting food and agriculture, recent applications of which have been directed to agricultural biosecurity at state and national levels.
Dr. Clarke is director emeritus of the Texas Agricultural Experiment Station, one of the largest broad-based public research organizations in the U.S. for food and agriculture. As a career Air Force R&D officer, he served as director of the Air Force’s medical research program for five years, where he was responsible for initiating the modern development of aircrew and air base protection against CBW weapons. Dr. Clarke was a member of the USAF Chief of Staff’s Scientific Advisory Board and Chairperson of its Aerospace Medical Panel. He is a fellow of the Aerospace Medical Association. He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences National Research Council’s Board on Agriculture and served as its Vice Chairperson for three years. He is author or co-author of more than 100 scientific publications.