Dean Drape earned a bilingual doctorate with honors from IESE Business School in Barcelona, Spain and taught at the George C. Marshall European Center for Security Studies in Garmisch- Partenkirchen, Germany. Drape is a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Air Force, where he worked as a program manager and procurement specialist on multi-million-dollar aerospace projects. His academic administrative experience includes U.S. Air Force Academy Chair and Deputy Director for the Program in Advanced Security Studies at the Marshall Center, Director for CBSI’s School of Business, Chair of the MBA and Graduate Business Programs in the School of Business at Azusa Pacific University and Deputy Department Head for Operations in the Department of Management at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Drape also earned an MBA from the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh and a Bachelor of Science in Management from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has held faculty appointments at five academic institutions and has led academic study abroad programs on four continents and 15 countries.
Dr. Thomas Drape Dean
Dr. Krishna Sampigethaya Chair of Cyber Intelligence and Security
Professor Tom Foley, J.D. Chair of Global Security and Intelligence Studies
Dr. Jules Yimga Chair of the School of Business
Yimga is a Fulbright U.S. Scholar with a Ph.D. in Economics from Kansas State University. His expertise lies in air transport economics and policy, as evident through his impressive publication record of 30 papers in top-tier refereed journals. Yimga’s contributions have been acknowledged with prestigious awards, such as the Best Paper Award from the Air Transport Research Society and three Scholar of the Year Awards. Beyond research and teaching, he actively supports the aviation industry as a member of the Board of Directors of the Arizona Business Aviation Association, engaging in public discourse and knowledge-sharing endeavors.
Sampigethaya received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington. He was the first Associate Technical Fellow for aviation cyber-physical security at Boeing, the first Associate Director for cybersecurity at the UTC Research Center and a graduate program director at the University of Maryland. Sampigethaya founded the first aviation cybersecurity technical committee at SAE and organizes aviation cyber tracks at SAE and AIAA/ IEEE conferences. He has authored over 65 papers, delivered 24 keynotes, holds 24 U.S. patents and taught the first ICAO aviation cybersecurity course to over 150 participants from 24 countries in 2022-2023.
Foley earned a Doctor of Jurisprudence (J.D.) in Law at Indiana University- Bloomington. He holds the following professional certifications: Certified Protection Professional, Physical Security Professional, Airport Security Coordinator and Airport Certified Employee — Security. He brings more than 15 years of corporate security experience to Embry-Riddle. He is an expert in security operations center management, physical security design, risk assessment, guard force management, workplace violence prevention, behavioral threat assessment, data center security, school shootings and security, active shooter events, emergency planning and response and training program development. Foley also volunteers with the Prescott Valley Police Department consulting on physical security and continuity planning.
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