Chloe Demrovsky

Chloe Demrovsky is an experienced executive leader with a distinguished career advising Fortune 100 companies, startups, consortia, and government on all aspects of emergency management. Recognized for her forward-thinking approach, she leverages present market fundamentals and technological innovation to drive transformation across industries. Demrovsky is currently Executive in Residence in Global Business and Economy at NYU where she oversees research on topics from geoeconomics and weaponized interdependence to emerging advanced technologies and cryptocurrency. She is also the Founder of Edgewood Insights, an advisory firm at the nexus of risk and resilience.

From 2017 to 2024, she served as the President and CEO of Disaster Recovery Institute International, the global leader in operational resilience and business continuity training and credentialing after having served since 2014 as Executive Director. Under her leadership, the institute doubled in size to support over 20,000 certified professionals in operational risk, business continuity and cyber resilience across 110+ countries, including at 95% of Fortune 100 and 60% of Global 2000 companies. She provided training services primarily for financial services, technology, healthcare, government and consulting. She built strategic partnerships and represented the brand in important forums including ISO Technical Committee 292 for Societal Security and Resilience and annual research with Harvard University’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative.

As a senior Forbes contributor, Demrovsky’s insights have been featured across major media outlets like Fox News, CBS News, CNBC, Newsmax, News Nation, CNN, MSNBC, Bloomberg, and Sky News. She’s also been a reliable source for leading publications, including The Financial Times, AP, BBC, USA Today, and ABC News. A sought-after speaker, she has presented at 150+ events on five continents and briefed government bodies such as the US Congress, the European Commission, and the UN. In 2024, she served on the FEMA National Advisory Council, evidencing her impact and recognition in her field.

Demrovsky’s affiliations reflect her dedication to global and community engagement. She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Crain’s New York 2023 Notable Leader, and holds fellowships with the US-Japan Foundation, the French-American Foundation and the British-American Project. Her work has been recognized with current board appointments at the French-American Foundation (Vice-Chair of the Executive Committee) and Tier 1 automotive supplier OPmobility’s (EPA: POM) Global Advisory Board and previously at the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction Global ARISE private sector partnerships board (2020-23) and Bard College at Simon’s Rock (Vice-Chair) (2019-24).

Fluent in four languages and a global traveler with visits to over 55 countries, Demrovsky resides in New York with her husband and family.

Sub-specialties:
- Business and the economy: business continuity and resilience, risk management, supply chain disruptions, operational incidents
- Climate change: climate adaptation and resilience to natural disasters, disaster risk reduction
- Cyber security: cyber resilience, business impact of a cyber attack, public-private partnership for cyber
- Disaster recovery: how to prepare for and recovery from disasters, best practices, business impact
- National security: cybersecurity, terrorism, critical national infrastructure vulnerability, what businesses should be concerned about
- Public safety: terrorism around big events, physical security, business risk