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President/CEO
Environmental Security International
E-mail:
Phone: (703) 330-3752
Michael Penders is the President and CEO of Environmental Security International (ESI), a firm
that conducts investigations, vulnerability assessments, and integrated security audits. ESI also
designs environmental and security management systems for critical infrastructure facilities,
using advanced environmental, information, and security technologies. ESI offers training,
policy and litigation services in related areas, including the new ISO 28,000 standard
for supply chain Security Management Systems.
Mr. Penders has led vulnerability assessments and security audits at critical infrastructure facilities in the private and public sectors. He has directed investigations into acts of terrorism, industrial sabotage, and environmental crimes in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. In 2004, Mr. Penders chaired a U.S.-Israel group of experts that developed the draft international standard for Security Management Systems (SMS).
Last year, ESI led pilot studies testing the integrated SMS standard at critical infrastructure facilities in the US,
Israel, and Italy. In the financial sector, ESI has implemented management systems integrating emergency response,
information, energy, and supply chain security, with disaster recovery, and business continuity programs.
Since 2000, Mr. Penders has worked with organizations as diverse as DOD, EPA, NATO,
NSA, the United Nations, the American Chemistry Council, and Fortune 100 Corporations on
environmental and security management, policy, and technologies. Previously, Mr. Penders
served as the Director of Legal Counsel for U.S. EPA's Office of Criminal Enforcement.
From 1998 to 2000, he Chaired the G8 Nations' Law Enforcement Project on International
Environmental Crime and Terrorism, developing a systems approach to detecting threats.
Since 1994, Mr. Penders worked on policy and standards for environmental auditing and management systems.
He was a co-author of EPA's audit policy and the guidance for Environmental Management Systems (EMS).
Mr. Penders chaired EPA's Voluntary Disclosure Board which considered disclosures of violations of laws under EPA's Audit
Policy, and evaluated management systems. He has worked with INTERPOL, NATO, NASA, FBI, NSA, and dozens of national
governments and international organizations in the use of advanced technologies to detect violations of international laws, and threats to international supply chains.
Formerly, Mr. Penders was a senior trial Prosecutor in New Jersey and President of the New Jersey Assistant Prosecutors'
Association from 1989-1991. He is a graduate of Cornell University and Seton Hall Law School.
He currently serves as Vice Chair of an American Bar Association (ABA) Committee on Homeland Security.
Mr. Penders has published more than a dozen articles on environmental law, enforcement, management systems,
international security, and counter-terrorism. He has testified before Congress, and lectured in North America,
Europe, South America, Asia, and the Middle East. Last year, Mr. Penders published: "Avoiding Liability from
Security Mandates and Regulators with Integrated Management Systems" in an ABA international law journal.
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