Dr. Peter E. Tarlow is a world-renowned speaker and expert specializing in the impact of crime and terrorism on the tourism industry, event and tourism risk management, and tourism and economic development. He was also the director and rabbi of Texas A&M Hilel for thirty years. Upon retirement he assumed the leadership of the Center for Latino – Jewish Relations. Peter writes a weekly bilingual social religious commentary that is read throughout the United States and Latin American and he also writes a monthly philosophy column for the Bryan Eagle. Peter has been a chaplain for the College Station police department since 1988 In April of 2013, he was asked to accept the role as the Envoy for the Office of Chancellor of the Texas A&M system, John Sharp. In 2015 he began teaching at the Texas A&M Medical School’s Department of Humanities, and in 2016, Governor Gregg Abbot of Texas named him as the Chairman of the Texas Holocaust and Genocide Commission.