NORTHFIELD – Norwich University Center for Global Resilience and Security (CGRS) named retired U.S. Army Reserve Col. William Lyons Jr., ’90, JD, MSS, MTUS, MSt., its new director. Lyons, who also teaches in Norwich’s civil engineering and construction management programs, has served as a senior fellow in CGRS, as a consultant to the Norwich University Applied Research Institutes, and as president of the Alumni Association, has more than 30 years of experience in academia, consulting, law, government and technology.
He is currently an adjunct faculty member at the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and the University of Massachusetts Amherst - Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, where he is a candidate for a Ph.D. and a Dwight D. Eisenhower Transportation Fellow. Over the last 15 years, the consulting firm Lyons founded and led has executed projects in 19 countries on five continents for U.S. government clients, including the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Agency for International Development and the special operations community.
Lyons is a combat veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom and recently retired as a colonel in the Army Reserves, having served most of his career in military intelligence.
