Groups: CARE Senior Fellows
Christine Pommerening is a Managing Partner at novaturient LLC, where she leads the risk management practice, including developing client contacts, preparing briefs and reports, and holding workshops, using NIST-CSF and other frameworks.
Dr. Pommerening has held appointments at George Mason University since 2004. As an instructor, she develops and teaches undergraduate, graduate and executive courses in public policy. She managed the School of Policy’s Executive Education Program from 2014-2016, including conceptualizing and conducting programs for various public, private, and international clients. She served as the Director of the School of Policy’s Masters of Public Policy Program with over 400 students in 2013-14.
Past research projects include directing the development of a training program on enterprise-wide risk management for electric utilities under a cooperative agreement with the Federal Emergency Management Agency; coordinating a data modeling project on the economic and workforce effects of military spending for the Virginia Governor’s Office and the Department of Defense Office of Economic Adjustment; and managing a comprehensive study on historical, legal, economic, and societal aspects of the postal service, conducted on behalf of the Postal Regulatory Commission, which was submitted to Congress in December 2008.
From 2004 until 2008, she was a Senior Research Associate at the Center for Infrastructure Protection and Homeland Security at the George Mason University School of Law, focusing on public and private sector approaches to infrastructure security, cybersecurity, and risk management.
Prior to that, she held appointments at Technische Universität Kaiserslautern and Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.
Christine Pommerening has a Ph.D. in Public Policy from George Mason University, and an M.A. in Industrial and Organizational Sociology from Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Germany.