Dr. Alex Altshuler (PhD) joined Selah as a volunteer in 1998 during his college studies, and joined its Board of Directors in 2012. In 2014 he joined the Program on Crisis Leadership (PCL) at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University as a Fulbright Post-Doctoral Fellow with PCL. His research focused, among others, on psychosocial and organizational aspects of emergency preparedness and disaster risk reduction. Most recently, he co-authored an official 2019 UN scientific report on disaster risk reduction  https://www.preventionweb.net/publications/view/65182.