Luke Ritter

Mr. Ritter leads the Global Trade Security practice at Ridge Global LLC, a management consulting firm founded by Tom Ridge, the first U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security. Securing Global Transportation Networks (McGraw Hill, 2006), has received widespread critical acclaim from publications such as Logistics Today, The Maritime Executive, Traffic World, and Supply Chain Management Review, and was selected as the American Society for Industrial Security, 'Book of the Month', in December of 2006. He has also recently been published and quoted on the subject of risk management in Journal of Commerce, Security Management, Directors Monthly, and Cargo Security International. Mr. Ritter is a U.S. Naval Academy graduate and holds an M.B.A from Old Dominion University. He is board certified by the American Society of Transportation and Logistics (AST&L), and serves as the Vice Chairman of the Transportation Security Council at ASIS.