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Bradford E. Billet, OBE, CEM is a crisis leader, strategist, author, and former senior New York City official. He is the Founder and Chairman of STAT Advisors LLC, the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive of the East Hampton Village Foundation, and the author of Chaos Reveals It.

Bradford E. Billet, OBE, CEM is a crisis leader, strategist, author, and former senior New York City official whose career has spanned four decades of leadership across government, emergency management, diplomacy, business, and public service, including 22 years in New York City government across three mayoral administrations. He was appointed to New York City EMS in 1994 and served 17 years as the City's liaison in the Mayor's Office for International Affairs, including as First Deputy Commissioner and Acting Commissioner. As Associate Executive Director of New York City EMS — radio designation Car 2, the department's second-ranking official — he was the chief architect of the 17 March 1996 merger of NYC EMS into the FDNY, delivering it from inside the agency being absorbed, and helped create the FDNY's Certified First Responder–Defibrillation program, instituted before the merger with deployment completed through 1997. He is the Founder and Chairman of STAT Advisors LLC; the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive of the East Hampton Village Foundation; and the author of Chaos Reveals It.

Bradford E. Billet, OBE, CEM is a crisis leader, strategist, author, and former senior New York City official whose career has spanned four decades of leadership across government, emergency management, diplomacy, business, and public service, including 22 years in New York City government across three mayoral administrations.

He was appointed to New York City EMS in 1994 and served 17 years as the City's liaison in the New York City Mayor's Office for International Affairs, including as First Deputy Commissioner and Acting Commissioner. At the time of the merger he was Associate Executive Director of New York City EMS, radio designation Car 2, the department's second-ranking official. As the chief architect of the historic 17 March 1996 merger of NYC EMS into the FDNY — approximately 3,250 EMS personnel transferred into a combined department of roughly 16,000, the transfer figure recorded in the 1997 New York Supreme Court decision In re Stanley Hill — he delivered it from the EMS side, from inside the agency being absorbed. He served as Deputy Director of the New York City Office of Emergency Management, established by Executive Order 30 on 19 March 1996 as a parallel component of the same restructuring, from June 1996 to June 1997. He also helped create the FDNY's Certified First Responder–Defibrillation program, instituted before the merger with deployment completed through 1997 and training firefighters to handle medical emergencies and maintain a continuum of care for the best patient outcome.

A frontline responder to the September 11 attacks, Billet helped coordinate the evacuation of thousands of people, the City's official missing-persons operation, the Family Assistance Center, and support for victims and families from more than 90 countries. His crisis leadership experience also includes TWA Flight 800, major disasters, diplomatic incidents, and complex corporate and governmental challenges. He was appointed Honorary Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2002 for coordinating New York City's international response after September 11.

Today, Billet is the Founder and Chairman of STAT Advisors LLC, where he advises senior executives, boards, governments, law firms, and organizations on crisis management, strategy, risk, public affairs, and complex decision-making. He is also the Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive of the East Hampton Village Foundation, a nonprofit supporting public safety, police, fire, EMS, and village council initiatives in East Hampton, New York, and the author of Chaos Reveals It. He serves on the Executive Board of the Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden in New York City.

Billet is the author of two earlier professional papers, Lessons from TWA 800: The Family Center (International Association of Emergency Managers, 1999) and What roles can consulates play in disasters (1998). He is also the author of Chaos Reveals It: Leadership Lessons and Stories from the Front Lines of 9/11, Disasters, Diplomacy, Business, and Beyond. Drawing on firsthand experiences from the moments when leadership matters most, the book introduces his STAT System™—Strategic, Tactical, Adaptive, and Timely—a practical framework for making sound decisions under pressure.