Paul Schulman
Senior Researcher
Center for Catastrophic Risk Management, University of California, Berkeley
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Paul R. Schulman is Professor Emeritus of Government at Mills College and a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Catastrophic Risk Management at the University of California, Berkeley. He has written extensively on managing hazardous technical systems to high levels of reliability and safety, within organizations and across networks of organizations.
His books include (with Emery Roe), Reliability and Risk: The Challenge of Managing Interconnected Critical Infrastructures (Stanford University Press, 2016), High Reliability Management (also with Emery Roe) (Stanford University Press, 2008), and Large-Scale Policy-Making (Elsevier, 1980). Recent relevant articles are “Organizational Structure and Safety Culture” (Safety Science, v.126, 2020), “Reliability, Uncertainty and the Management of Error: New Perspectives in the COVID-19 Era” (Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, vol. 30, 2022) and “Problems and Paradoxes of Managing Reliability and Reliance in Inter-Organizational Networks.” (Safety Science, v. 167, 2023).
He has been a consultant to the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, the California Independent System Operator, the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Invitae (a genetic testing start-up) and was an advisor to the California Public Utilities Commission’s Office of the Safety Advocate.
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