Public Safety Technology Program Director
(410) 706-5719| cwebster@law.umaryland.edu

Christopher Webster is the Public Safety Technology Program Director at the Center for Health and Homeland Security. In that role he helps clients tackle challenges that arise from adopting emerging technologies.

Mr. Webster has more than fifteen years of experience helping clients meet cybersecurity, strategic planning, and emergency management challenges. He has helmed a wide range of projects – from serving as the Chief Operating Officer of a cybersecurity firm specializing in cryptographic identification, to conducting mass transit system vulnerability assessments, to helping establish the new Montgomery County Office of Food Systems Resilience. While widely varied, Mr. Webster’s work shares the common themes of requiring complex system-level problem solving, and the application of emerging or novel technologies.

Since 2019, Mr. Webster has served as a professor at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law, where he teaches Cybercrimes in the JD program, and both Cybercrimes and Public Health Law in the Masters of Science in Law Program. His academic research centers on cybersecurity policy, as well as the practical and ethical application of artificial intelligence, especially in the contexts of public health and public safety.

Mr. Webster joined the Center in August 2010, shortly following his graduation from the University of Maryland, Francis King Carey School of Law. He received his BS in Business Administration, with focuses on Finance and Accounting, from Colorado State University in December 2006.

Examples of Projects include:

• Strategic Planning for Maryland Office of Resilience
• Threat and Vulnerability Assessment, Maryland Transit Authority
• Strategic Planning for Office of Food Systems Resilience, Montgomery County
• Strategic Planning to Address Childhood Hunger, Montgomery County
• Strategy Consultant, Montgomery County Food Security Task Force
• Chief Operations Officer, Foundation for Trusted Identity
• Complex Coordinated Terror Attack Planning – Mutual Aid Gap Analysis
• Emergency Operations Planning – Housing Authority of Baltimore City