Jim Fox

James (Jim) Fox is a Senior Resilience Associate. Jim has over 40 years of experience in helping people understand and make decisions in a complex and changing world.

Jim is the past Director of UNC Asheville’s NEMAC, where he led the group from 2005 to 2020. The private company, Fernleaf, was spun from NEMAC in 2014 with the goal of commercializing resilience products and services. The NEMAC+FernLeaf team is known nationally for its significant role in the development of NOAA's Steps to Resilience framework.

Since the development of the public-private partnership, Jim has helped develop and deliver community resilience assessments for West Palm Beach (FL), Tallahassee (FL), Charleston (SC), Asheville and the surrounding region (NC), North Carolina’s Triangle region (Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill/Cary), and the State of North Carolina Risk Assessment and Resilience Plan.