Joan VanDervort
Former Deputy Director, Ranges, Sea and Airspace, Advisory Board, Center for Climate and Security
About this speaker
Joan VanDervort is a member of the Advisory Board for The
Center for Climate and Security and a contributor and signatory to the Climate and Security Plan for America. She has over 28 years of professional experience working with the Department of Defense across a broad spectrum of issues,
from climate change and energy to the various forces impacting
military training capabilities. Before retiring from federal
service in May 2014, she served as the Deputy Director for
Ranges, Sea and Airspace in the Office of the Deputy
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness, where she
oversaw programs and policy related to military training constraints
and how those factors translate into training readiness
and national security impacts. Before talking her position with
Office of the Secretary of Defense, VanDervort served as
a senior advisor on environmental, encroachment, and climate
change issues impacting training capability for the Army.
During her tenure with the Army she also oversaw the
Army’s Integrated Training Area Management Program
responsible for the long-term sustainability of over
7 million acres of training land on 82 installations, worldwide.
