Steve Romano, Senior Advisor, Crisis Management and Negotiations, Center for Personal Protection and Safety

Mr. Romano spent the last 20 years of his law enforcement career at the FBI, where he was most recently Chief of the Crisis Negotiation Unit in the Critical Incident Response Group. In this role he led more than 400 trained crisis negotiators in 56 field offices and was responsible for the overall operational, instructional, research, budget, and personnel oversight.

During his career with the FBI, Mr. Romano was an active negotiator operationally involved in either a key leadership or advisory role in numerous hostage, barricade and kidnap incidents. He also managed numerous international kidnap negotiations and was deployed to India and Ecuador.

While at the FBI, Mr. Romano sharpened his training skills by planning, evaluating, and participating in a wide range of national and international crisis management field training exercises. In addition, he revised the FBI National Crisis Negotiation Course and published a number of crisis negotiation articles. He has been featured in several productions on negotiations for Discovery, TLC, and the History Channel.