Ian Becking

Ian has over thirty years of experience in Emergency Management in both the public and private sectors.  His last position as Director of Emergency Management for Calian saw him provide senior level project leadership to Calian’s Emergency Management program. He was accountable for the efficient and effective conduct of all project work within the service line. These projects included large innovative exercises for communities and for the Government of Canada, reviews of community and provincial responses to major emergencies and emergency plan development for First Nations communities. 

  

In his time with the Government of Canada, he was the Training and Exercise Officer for Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada from 1990 to 1995 where he led the development of major exercises and training for the department. With the downsizing of the group, he moved to Emergency Preparedness Canada’s (now Public Safety Canada) Government Emergency Operations and Coordination Centre (now the Government Operations Centre) as an Operations Officer in 1995 and led the federal coordination efforts to several major emergencies during the 1990s.  He then became the Manager of Geomatics, leading a team of Geomatics Technicians to support the Operations Centre from 2000 to 2009.  He also led the development of several information exchange projects and helped the advancement of the use of geospatial technologies throughout the Government of Canada. In the private sector, he helped develop CAE’s public safety portfolio from 2009 to 2013 and managed the Emergency Management and Defence business line for International Safety Research until that company was acquired by Calian Ltd. 

  

Concurrent with his extensive experience, Ian has had a distinguished 30-year career in the Canadian Armed Forces Army’s reserve from 1983 to 2013 including commanding artillery units in Ottawa and Pembroke and deploying to Afghanistan in 2008-09. 

 

 

 

What brought him to CDRO? 

  

“My passion is in validating emergency plans and confirming training of emergency management professionals and I want to continue contributing to the growth of the emergency management community in Canada. CDRO’s “we are here to help” motto appealed to me, and its membership consists of colleagues and clients I know and have worked with.  I believe I can help grow the Advisory portfolio of CDRO.”