Despite his pedigree as a Harvard and Yale-trained physician and entrepreneur, he carried himself - in rooms full of health policy experts, master clinicians and Rhodes Scholars - with an elegant humility.
The roster includes different types of FFS experts: master trainers, project coordinators, project formulators and evaluators.
He is also author of The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America, also available from the University of Pennsylvania Press.
Local experts — masters of foxhounds, gamekeepers, and pest officers — would be asked to help with information on the location and habits of foxes.
According to Scott G. Knowles, author of "The Disaster Experts: Mastering Risk in Modern America," expatriates are likely to rise to action when a crisis erupts in the United States because of "community cohesion".
And they all show that people involved in such discussions quickly become adept at quizzing experts, mastering a brief, asking questions and unmasking political assumptions masquerading as scientific conclusions.
Experts, masters and innovators were nominated and selected according to standards of supreme domain knowledge, most often on the basis of academic credentials implying that younger people (<30 years of age) usually were not included in the nominal groups.
As sex experts Masters and Johnson recognized some time ago, the most important sexual organ is between the ears.
The satirical pitch concluded, "If you're looking for a persuasive communications expert and master salesman capable of making almost anything believable, I'm your man".
The I.S.I. -- the shorthand name for the military intelligence agencies -- is widely presumed to be an expert puppet master, the great Oz of a manipulated society.
