Al Davis is serving as Interim Agency Director for Texas A&M Forest Service effective June 7,
2021.
Davis is deputy agency director of the Texas A&M
Engineering Extension Service, TEEX, and has been employed with TEEX since
2005, having served as director of the National Emergency Response and Recovery
Training Center. In 2014, he was appointed to deputy agency director.
He is the immediate past chairman of the National Domestic
Preparedness Consortium, co-founder and principal emeritus of the National
Cyber Security Preparedness Consortium, and a former advisory board member of
the National Center for Spectator Sports Safety and Security.
Prior to his time with The Texas A&M University System,
he worked as a consultant with United Water and served as a chief executive of
the Public School District in New Orleans. He also served in the U.S. Marine
Corps and retired at the rank of colonel.
Davis earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Southern
University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, Louisiana; a master’s degree in
national resource strategy from the National Defense University, Washington,
D.C.; and a master’s degree of business administration from Averett University,
Danville, Virginia. |