Dave Fortier serves as president and executive director for One World Strong Foundation, a non-profit organization centered on prevention of targeted violence, peer-to-peer network development for survivors, families that have lost loved ones, refugees, and first responders to terrorist, extremist, and mass casualty attacks globally. Working closely with the U.S. Department of State‚ Bureau of Counterterrorism, Educational & Cultural Affairs, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Bureau of Investigation Victims Assistance Teams, as well as several foreign government and city leaders, Dave designs innovative inter-agency prevention and response strategies to communities at risk of targeted violence.
During his career in wireless telecommunication, Mr. Fortier led teams in business process design and network optimization, change & risk management, organizational design, and workforce planning. He has managed numerous successful programs across a wide variety of industries and has extensive hands-on management/senior and executive management experience globally.
Dave’s current role focuses on conflict mitigation, and response leadership to counterterrorism and targeted violence prevention programs while promoting innovative recovery approaches to local, national, and international mass casualty events. In addition, Mr. Fortier brings expertise across the national and international security paradigm in developing counternarrative strategies, radicalization awareness, designing peer-to-peer programs, facilitating trauma response, and innovative resilience center implementation efforts designed for long-term sustainment programs within the prevention space for cities and states.
The effort to eradicate hate requires the active participation of every component of our society, to include governments, the private sector, communities of faith and indeed every aspect of civil society. There is no more urgent task in front of us. The organizers of the Eradicate Hate Global Summit are doing the United States and the world an enormous service by tackling hatred and extremism with a focus on honest dialogue and conversation, genuine learning and practical solutions. This will not happen overnight, but the Pittsburgh community’s leadership in this effort is genuinely inspiring and motivating.
