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Manager, High Risk Deployment, CBC

Harris Silver served as an Infantry Officer with the Canadian Forces, with several operational tours in the Balkans and the Middle East, as well as providing support to domestic operations supporting the civil authorities. Upon departure from the service, he conducted the disarmament of former Mujahideen fighters for the United Nations in Afghanistan, supported the security and electoral operations of the 2005 and 2009 Afghanistan elections, and was a counter-narcotics adviser for the Poppy Elimination Programme in Kandahar under the US State Department.

Harris established the High Risk program at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and continues to support media operations there, most recently assisting in the contingency planning and crisis management for the CBC and Radio-Canada deployment for the Sochi Olympics, as well as news assignments to cover the conflict in Syria, and the Ebola outbreak in Liberia and Sierra Leone.

He holds a Bachelor of Science from Brock University, is a board-certified security professional holding the Certified Protection Professional Designation (CPP) from ASIS, and is presently working towards his Canadian Risk Management (CRM) Designation.