Angie Z. Valencia

Director of Executive Operations & Special Projects

Angie Valencia is the Director of Executive Operations & Special Projects. In this position, she serves as a trusted partner to the Institute’s Founding Director, providing strategic and operational support to the Institute Director in advancing the academic, operational & public engagement missions and research initiatives of the Defense Industrial Base Institute (DIBI) and the Global Resilience Institute (GRI). Valencia works closely with Founding Director Flynn to support the development, program management, and execution of all research portfolios under DIBI as well as those of existing, past and future federal research grants (DHS, NOAA, USAID, FEMA) under GRI. Angie helps to mentor a group of talented next generation resilience leaders (Graduate and Undergraduate students) that help to support those efforts.

Angie has over 10 years’ experience in applied research, communications, and research development efforts at Northeastern where she has worked closely with DIBI and GRI Principal Investigator on proposal preparation and execution of complex multimillion dollar projects awarded. Under GRI, Valencia has helped to support the engagement with members of the Global Resilience Research Network (GRRN), founded in April 2018 in collaboration with Fraunhofer EMI. This network spans over 27 countries with over 300 members from Industry, government and academia.

Prior to academia, Valencia worked at C-space, a global market research online community, customer strategy and innovation agency, where she helped to project manage international brands such as Santander and Kimberly Clark, drove consumer insights in Spanish and English via curated online consumer communities and in person consumer projects. Angie has over 20 years’ experience in client services, program and project management, marketing and events management. During her time in Miami, Florida she worked for a luxury distributor that helped to build the presence of luxury brands in Latin America and the Caribbean through innovative marketing, events, and retailer support. Born in Isla de San Andres, Colombia, Valencia graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Anthropology and a minor in Latin American and Caribbean studies from Connecticut College in New London, CT.