Sydney Stewart

Sydney Stewart is an expert in emergency management and homeland security, specializing in large-scale incident planning and response and resilience of critical community lifeline networks and infrastructure systems. 

At CNA, Stewart has supported program evaluations and needs assessments; futures planning efforts; catastrophic planning and real-time incident response within CNA's supply chain resilience practice area; and after-action analyses of responses to a multitude of natural disasters, public health emergencies, and civil unrest incidents. She received the CNA Safety and Security Division Innovations Award for her work on piloting the use of cellphone-derived location data as a means of understanding hurricane evacuation behavior. She has also been recognized with multiple CNA Institute for Public Research Deployer Awards, as well as a Certificate of Achievement from FEMA's Continuous Improvement Program, for her real-time and after-action support of high-profile events including the COVID-19 pandemic and Hurricanes Ida (2020), Ian (2022), Idalia (2023), and Helene (2024). 

Stewart holds a Master of Science and Bachelor of Science in animal science from Oklahoma State University. She was a 2017-2018 Fulbright US Study/Research grantee to Germany, supporting livestock husbandry and agricultural biosecurity research at the University of Bonn's Institute for Animal Sciences.