Russell Dippy is TIEMS Officer Expert on International Certification in Emergency Management
Dr Russell DIPPY is a dual internationally certified emergency manager. He holds a Doctor of Public Safety and Masters of Emergency Management (with Distinction) from Charles Sturt University in Australia. He also holds a Vocational Graduate Certificate in Management (Learning) and a range of vocational qualifications in Management, Volunteer Management, Leadership and Human Resources.
Russell has published in the area of Emergency Management Professionalisation. He has been deployed internationally with an Australian Government disaster medical assistance team and was a founding member of the Australian Emergency Management Assistance Team. He has been deployed interstate to support other jurisdictional emergency management responses.
Russell is the Emergency Management Coordinator for the South Australia Police, having held this role for over 25 years of his 36-year policing career, and has undertaken Operational and Strategic leadership roles through a range of emergency management responses to state, national and international emergency events.
On a day to day basis he provides holistic emergency management policy, training and management across the prevention and preparedness to emergencies and supports operational management of response and recovery operations. He provides extensive executive support and training to government and non-government agencies to support emergency management awareness and development. Russell is an active participant in many of Australia’s national policy areas relative to emergency management. He is a regular reviewer of Australian Institute of Disaster Resilience Handbooks and other national publications.
He is a member of the International Association of Emergency Managers (IAEM), holds the Certified Emergency Manager (CEM) designation and is currently part of the IAEM Oceania Executive, a member of The International Emergency Management Society (TIEMS) where he also holds the TIEMS International TQC Certification for International Emergency and Disaster Management (TQC) , and is a Fellow of the Australasian Institute of Emergency Services where he holds the recently developed Certified Emergency Services Manager (CESM) certification. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Emergency Management (FAcEM), a Member of the International Association of Emergency Management (MIAEM), a Member of the Australasian Institute of Emergency Services (MAIES) and a Member of the Institute of Civil Protections and Emergency Management (MICPEM).