Dr. Lori Moore-Merrell is President and CEO of the International Public Safety Data Institute, an organization that procures, assembles, analyzes and reports information from fire, rescue and law enforcement data, including live dashboards for local public safety agencies. Prior to this position, Lori served for 26 years as a senior executive with the International Association of Fire Fighters (IAFF), responsible for frontline interaction with elected officials, fire chiefs, and local labor leaders throughout the U.S. and Canada. Lori has extensive expertise in emergency response system evaluation, data collection and analysis, costs and benefits analysis, strategic planning, advocacy, consensus building, and policy development and implementation. She began her career as a firefighter/paramedic with the Memphis (TN) Fire Department, holds an undergraduate degree in education and EMS from the University of Memphis and has masters and doctoral degrees from the George Washington University School of Public Health.