Dr. Douglas A. Wiegmann is co-founder and Vice President of Error Management Solutions, LLC. He is also a tenured professor in the Department of Human Factors at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign. Dr. Wiegmann is an internationally recognized expert in the fields of human error analysis and accident investigation, and has formerly served as an aviation psychologist for the U.S. Navy and an accident investigator for the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). He was the official human factors consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy during the investigation of the August 2003 blackout and consultant to the Columbia Accident Investigation Board during their analysis of the causes underlying the crash of the NASA space shuttle. Dr. Wiegmann is a board certified human factors professional and the Past-president of the Aerospace Human Factors Association.

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