Dan Anderson is Senior Coordinator for Public Warning and Communications for Hennepin County Emergency Management where he oversees Hennepin County’s Public Warning program and ensures that the Hennepin County Emergency Operations Center maintains and operates primary, alternate, contingency, and emergency communications pathways. He is a Minnesota-certified Emergency Manager and State-recognized Communications Unit Leader (COML) and Auxiliary Emergency Communicator (AUXC), a member of the MESB Communications Response Task Force (CRTF) and MN-1 All-Hazard Incident Management Team (AHIMT).

He authored both the Alternate Communications Plan and Auxiliary Communications Plan for Super Bowl 52, which the City of Minneapolis hosted in February 2018. He was also the COML for the Emergency Management discipline for the event, coordinating Primary Communications among Emergency Operations Centers over a 10-day period. He formed the HCEM Auxiliary Communications Team in 2012 to serve the needs of the Hennepin County Emergency Operations Center.

He is former SECB STR Subcommittee Chair, former SECB Communications Unit (COMU) Workgroup Chair, and has evaluated several Central Minnesota Communications Exercises (COMMEX). He is a General-class amateur radio licensee, callsign KD0ASX.