Larry Winter Roeder, Jr., MS
Facilitator for Foreign Policy for Change

Email: lroeder@foreignpolicyforchange.org

 Phone: 703-867-2056

Retired from US Department of State as the Policy Adviser on Disaster Management. 35 years experience in negotiating international agreements and working on conflict reduction, disaster management, information management, peace keeping, science and technology, economics, indigenous peoples (Bedouins and Native Americans), refugees, IDPs and human rights.  .

Managed creation of ReliefWeb.int after Rwanda Crisis (the UN's first major disaster web site) and received Superior Honor Award for fostering GDIN, the Global Disaster Information Network, a project proposed by Vice President Al Gore.  Former member of the SubCommittee on Disaster Reduction, a body that advised the President of the United States on disaster related technology. Represented the United States in the Futures Project on Risk Management Policies launched by OECD (the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) which focused on projected systemic risks in the 21st century, including climate change.   Joined the World Society for the Protection of Animals in October, 2005 and is Editor in Chief of Climatecaucus.net

Author, artist and public speaker. Former Armed Forces Network (AFN) news anchor and civilian peacekeeper in Sinai, Egypt.  Honorary member of the Alegat Bedouin tribe of the Sinai.  

• Hosted Hub for the Obama Campaign in Eastern Loudoun County,

• Virginia.Delegate for Barack Obama at the 2008 Virginia Democratic State Convention.

• Delegate to the Democratic 10th Congressional District of Virginia Convention, 2009.