Captain John M. Holmes, USCG (ret.)
Capt. Holmes is a Marine Consultant and port and maritime security specialist with 30 years of experience in positions that include a Chief Operating Officer, Fortune 500 executive, senior level Coast Guard officer. His positions include serving as Deputy Executive Director for the Port of Los Angeles, where he was responsible for managing the day to day operations at the largest port in North America.Capt. Holmes retired from the United States Coast Guard in 2003 following 27 years of service in posts that includedCaptain of the Port for the Los Angeles-Long Beach port complex. During his Coast Guard Career, Captain Holmes also served as Deputy Chief of the Office of Congressional Affairs, and as Committee Chairman at the International Maritime Organization in London.
Capt. Holmes has been an active consultant for the U.S. National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. He was a member of the National Academies Committee on Advanced Spectroscopic Portals (2010), The Committee on Performance Metrics for the Global Nuclear Detection Architecture (2013) and the India – US Workshop on Science and technology for Countering Terrorism (2014). He is currently a member of the International CBRN Resilience Exercise Planning Committee.
Captain Holmes is an expert in course development, course instruction and exercise planning, and is certified as an instructor by the Department of Defense and the Department of State, with over ten years’ experience advising foreign governmentson port, border and maritime security, and providing instruction to governments around the globe.Heholds bachelor’s degrees in English and Education from Boston College, in Boston, Massachusetts and a Master’s Degree in business administration from Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri. Captain Holmes is currently a co-principal investigator on a MacArthur Grant project titled “Bolstering Counter-Proliferation Efforts within the Global Supply System”.