Kyle King
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first heard Jul 2024
last heard Jul 2024
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Okay, thanks. Well, thanks for having me on the show. I really do appreciate it. I'm happy to be here as well. And to discuss what I think is a growing and important topic. I think it's something we've been dealing with for a long time in terms of food security, and it's getting a lot more visibility now.
But before we dive into that, my favorite food, you know, I would actually have to say, and this is going to be a terrible answer, but I'm going to have to default to just sort of a pizza. And the reason is because I've traveled internationally quite a bit. And, you know, the Italians do a pizza in a certain way.
And if even inside Italy, you know, if you go to Napoli and other areas, they have different pizza styles and Sicily and everything else like that. But it is one constant, right? It is one constant anywhere in the world. You can always find a pizza. You can always have a slice of home, I guess I would say. Sometimes it's good, sometimes it's bad, but it's something you can always rely upon.
I would just go straight with the pepperoni, but there's also, you know, sort of a diavola, which is with the peppers and more hot, I guess I would say. And then, yeah, just a standard sort of margarita as well, which is sort of what a lot of Europeans default to.
mean you could i mean but generally speaking it's a safe bet is there a particular pizza place that you have in mind that you were thinking of when you said that well i mean not really there's some really good italian places that i've that i've been to that you know when you go in and you just have this giant they bring out a very thin slice or a very you know thin pizza and just it's tremendous in size it takes up sort of half the table and it's absolutely fantastic the only problem is you generally will go into a carb sort of coma after that yeah
that's great and then your favorite food memory oh that's a great question i think you know for me personally i mean i'm originally from texas and originally from dallas and there used to be a restaurant in dallas that had this just infamously famous hot sauce and mexican food and it was absolutely fantastic and when you but when you go there it's sort of like a dive and you go in and the first thing they do is give you a giant glass of
and pitcher of iced tea. And then the hot sauce was extremely hot, but the food was fantastic. And so that's something I always think about. I think it's closed now, but unfortunately that was always a good place to go for Mexican food back in the time when I was in the US.
Yeah, it's a nostalgia of the place. And then, you know, there's some for some weird reason. And you can sort of let me know if I'm right or wrong. But there's this correlation between going into a place that is rather simple by design, but has fantastic food. Right. And then if you go into a place that's sort of extravagant and the food is not great.
So for whatever reason, this place had just the lack of decor and the fantastic food just sort of stuck in my mind.
Thanks. Yeah, so my name is Kyle King. I'm the managing director of Capacity Building International. It's one of our small consultancy firms, and we focus on international security, institutional capacity building, and with a specific focus on crisis management, planning, and resilience. And on the other side of that, we have Crisis Lab. I'm the founder of Crisis Lab.
And so that's our online peer-to-peer professional development platform that's fully accredited. And that's where we are bringing international experts together to share their experiences, their ideas, and to be able to help us all be better professionals at the end of the day by expanding our worldview on the topics that we have to deal with every day. So that's sort of what I'm doing today.
In my past, I spent 17 years in the emergency services and the emergency response side of the house, specifically within the US Department of Defense. And during that time, I was very fortunate to start working overseas very young. And so then I was deployed into international operations or sort of DOD operations.
And so that was where I spent a lot of time in the Balkans during the conflict periods and then also two and a half years in Afghanistan. Took a break for a while and then ended up working for the Organization for Security Cooperation in Europe for two years before the war in Ukraine started.
And also during that time before I actually went to Ukraine, I skipped over this, but I spent seven years as a civil emergency advisor supporting NATO operations. And so that was really construct behind all of this is bringing emergency services and crisis management and all these sort of resilience topics into conflict areas to try and create stability.
So that's one of the things that has been a key theme throughout my entire career path thus far. So that's a sort of a really quick sort of complicated overview of how I got here today.
Sure. So at this point in time, like most of our work is focused on supporting like U.S. bilateral efforts with partners overseas. And so we are working with partners in their various, let's say, government departments, agencies and entities that are responsible for various different aspects of resilience and civil security. So that could be in the topic for today, like food security.
That could also be in water security, telecommunications. Overall crisis management. So we spend a lot of time focused on, okay, what is your national response plan? These FEMA-like organizations that are in different countries, how are they planning for disasters? How do they mitigate, recover from them? How do they respond to them? What is their crisis management framework?
How is their constitution to the laws, to the various policies they have? How is that word designed and orchestrated? And how do they have and how they measure interagency cooperation. So a real sort of spoiler alert, everybody has problems with interagency cooperation, so it's nothing new for anybody. But, you know, how do these systems and structures, how are they established?
What are the best practices? And how can we promote these different sort of best practices across the international community so that we're able to more adeptly respond to a crisis? And also, increasingly, how can we handle more complex crisis? Because as the world evolves, and we have seen in recent years,
You know, things are becoming more complex, more interconnected, and requires much more of a whole of government approach to addressing these problems than we do today. So day to day, it's really about sort of a lot of advising, mentoring, guiding, policy development. It's helping with the planning processes, a lot of discussion on interagency cooperation.
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