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Lecturer in Management, Yale University

Professor Amy L. Fraher is a leadership scholar and author of the award winning book 'The Next Crash: How Short-Term Profit Seeking Trumps Airline Safety' (Cornell University Press). She currently lectures in the Yale School of Management and has previously held academic appointments in the Southampton and Birmingham Business Schools in the UK and University of California Davis and University of San Francisco in the USA. A retired U.S. Navy Commander and Naval Aviator, and former United Airlines pilot, Fraher has over 6,000 mishap-free flight hours in four jet airliners, five military aircraft, and several types of civilian airplanes. With almost thirty years of leadership experience in high-risk fields, she is a crisis management expert and consults internationally to a broad range of organizations. Her focus is on improving leadership and team performance in crisis by helping people understand how group dynamics can debilitate operations.