Dante Disparte is the founder and chairman of Risk Cooperative, a strategic risk advisory and insurance brokerage based in Washington, D.C., and licensed in all 50 states, D.C., and Puerto Rico. Dante also serves as an appointee on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) National Advisory Council and has served on various subcommittees reviewing insurance and mitigation, capacity building and long-term strategy. He is the founder and chairman of the Business Council for American Security and an ex-officio board member with the American Security Project, a non-partisan think tank focused on comprehensive security issues for the twenty-first century.
Dante is a frequent speaker and commentator on business and political issues shaping the world. His views on risk, economic competitiveness and global security are regularly featured in leading media and publications, such as Harvard Business Review, BBC, Forbes, and International Policy Digest, among others. Dante is a graduate of Harvard Business School and holds an MSc. in Risk Management from the NYU Stern School of Business and a B.A. in International and Intercultural Studies from Goucher College, where he is the recipient of the school’s highest public service award. He is the co-author of Global Risk Agility and Decision Making (Macmillan, 2016) and was recognized as one of the 40 leaders under 40 by the Washington Business Journal and in the inaugural Powermeter 100 list.