Frank Porporino Ph.D.

Network Chair, ICPA Research and Development Network, Canada

Frank Porporino has a Ph.D. in clinical psychology and has sustained a 45-year career in corrections as a front-line practitioner, senior manager, researcher, educator, trainer, and consultant. Frank has promoted evidence-informed practice throughout his career and his contributions have been recognized with awards from a number of associations including the ACA, ICCA, Volunteers of America and the International Corrections and Prisons Association (ICPA).  He has remained active internationally providing training and technical assistance in effective practice in over 25 countries, most recently in Ethiopia, Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, Japan, Namibia, Ireland, Singapore and Barbados. Currently Frank is serving as Editor of the ICPA practitioner-oriented journal, Advancing Corrections, Chair of the ICPA R&D Network, member of the ICPA Practice Transfer Taskforce and Board Member for the ICPA-North America Chapter. He is also Past-President of the International Association for Correctional and Forensic Psychology (IACFP).

Bob Goble

Executive Vice President Emeritus, CGL Companies, United States

Bob Goble began professional practice as a facility planner with the city of Dallas, Texas in 1971. Most of his experience has been in the planning of facilities for adult and juvenile corrections, detention, law enforcement, and courthouses. Some notable projects included: consulting planning in Singapore for the new Changi Prison, Boys Home, Selarang Park Complex, Woodbridge Mental Health Center, and Subordinate Courts Expansion plan; growth expansion plans for the Asian Development Bank (ADB) World Headquarters in Manila; and corrections project plans review for the Council of Europe Development Bank (CEB). He has also prepared operational systems evaluations, master plans and provided technical assistance and training for local, state and federal government agencies throughout the USA and several other countries. He has served as an expert witness in USA Federal and state courts and authored 12 published articles and manuals on facilities and systems planning. Prior to helping establish CGL Mr. Goble was Assistant Director of the planning division of an international engineering firm. At the University of Illinois graduate school, he was a Research Assistant and Writer for the “Quarterly Digest of Urban and Regional Research” and a graduate Teaching Assistant in urban and regional planning. His memberships have included: Chairman Board of Directors South Carolina Children’s Bureau; American Institute of Certified Planners; American Correctional Association; Chair ACA International Committee; American Jail Association; and the International Corrections and Prisons Association.  He is a past member of the ICPA Board of Directors, served as Treasurer, Program Committee member, is a member of the Practice Transfer Task Force and the Board of the ICPA-North America Chapter.