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About the Author:Jörg H. Trauboth was born just outside of Berlin in 1943 during an air-raid. He discovered his love for writing early in his career as an officer and was awarded top honors by the General Inspector of the German Bundeswehr. Along the way, he accumulated over two thousand flight hours as a weapons systems officer and instructor in the Phantom F-4F/RF-E4 and the Tornado aircrafts. Trauboth become a General Staff Officer in Hamburg-Blankenese and enrolled in the NATO Defense College in Rome. He has served in the German national operational headquarters as well as in the NATO Headquarters in Brussels as the German representative in the areas of Crisis Management, Operations, and Intelligence.At the age of fifty, he retired early from his post as a colonel in the German Air Force to become a Special Risk Consultant at the Control Risk Group in London and was engaged in negotiating extortion and kidnapping situations in South America and Eastern Europe. The former colonel, eager to start making money on his own and contribute to society, soon founded the Trauboth Risk Management company. He received a startup award for his company and quickly made a reputation for himself internationally as an top-notch crisis manager. During his time as CEO, he conceptualized crisis prevention strategies for a number of European companies and employed a 24-hour task force to protect them from product tampering, product recalls, kidnappings, and image crises. He was also a co-founder and the first president of the European Crisis Management Academy in Vienna and wrote a standard reference book on the subject of crisis management for companies at risk of threat. Jörg H. Trauboth is an author, filmmaker, and an enthusiastic pilot. He has served as the European Director and President of the international American Pilots Organization. His advice on crisis management remains continually sought after and he has appeared in many television interviews regarding his opinion on current international crisis situations. He is married, has two sons, three grandchildren, and lives with his wife near Bonn, Germany. In addition, Trauboth voluntarily contributes his time and expertise to the Crisis Invention Team of the German Federal Foreign Office in Bonn. trauboth-autor.de |