James Young

After serving as Commissioner of Emergency Management to the Province of Ontario, Dr. James Young joined Canada’s Public Safety and Emergency Preparedness department in January 2005.

He currently serves as a Senior Advisor on emergency management for this department and for other federal departments. Prior to taking on this new role, Dr. Young was also Assistant Deputy Minister of Public Safety for Ontario’s Ministry of Community and Safety and Correctional Services, Chief Coroner for the Province of Ontario and an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto. He played pivotal roles in the Government of Ontario’s management of the SARS crisis, the 2003 Canadian/American power outage and Ontario’s response concerning Avian Influenza.

Dr. Young has consulted on forensic issues following the 2001 events at the World Trade Center in New York City, the 2002 Bali bombings, the deaths of four Canadian soldiers in Afghanistan in 2002 and, most recently, the South East Asian Tsunami disaster in late 2004 and early 2005.