Paul Taylor is a retired Colonel with more than twenty years in the U.S. Army, with multiple overseas tours, as well as serving in the Pentagon and on Capitol Hill. He was most recently the Regional Administrator for FEMA Region 7 in Kansas City, where he was responsible for all federal government disaster response and preparedness activities in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, including the COVID-19 response. He continues to work in the Emergency Management field in the private sector.