Larry
Winter Roeder, Jr., MS,
Private Contractor.
2010 - __ Chief Executive Officer of International Farm Rescue: Multilateral Diplomacy, project management, the United Nations, treaty negotiations, humanitarian and natural disaster management, sustainable development, climate change, livelihood protection, peacekeeping, political canvassing, animal welfare.
2007 - __ Editor in Chief: ClimateCaucus.net, a network of NGOs that focuses on reducing or eliminating climate change. In 2009 produced a report to the Secretary General of the United Nations.
2005-2009 UN Affairs Director, WSPA, World Society for the Protection of Animals with focus on link between animal welfare and sustainable development. Asked to join WSPA in order to reduce cruelty to animals in humanitarian development and disaster operations that often either ignore animals or minimally resource assistance. Bridging the animal welfare and humanitarian communities helps both by reducing cruelty to animals and reducing poverty, hunger and disease. Chaired discussions on animal welfare at the UN's 2005 World Conference on Disaster Reduction while with the US Department of State, at that time proposing that a UN resolution recognize the link between animal welfare and sustainable development. Also proposed the ISDR (the International Strategy on Disaster Risk Reduction) and IASC (The InterAgency Standing Committee of the UN) recognize the link between animal welfare, protecting jobs and reducing hunger and disease. Reintroduced these ideas while with WSPA and in 2007 created a flyer on the protecting animals, in cooperation with the UN, the Red Cross Movement and other international organizations (attached). In March 2008, brokered a deal by the Arab Red Cross-Red Crescent societies to protect animals from disasters, the first such regional agreement in the Red Cross movement's history. 2009 prior to WSPA's reorganization, gained support for the first time among EU member states and many G77 member states for a resolution in the UN to protect animals.
2005 Retired from US Department of State as the Policy Adviser on Disaster Management. 35 years military and diplomatic experience in conflict reduction, disaster management, information management, peace keeping, science and technology, endangered species protection, economics, indigenous peoples, refugees and the internally displaced. As a result of experiences working on the 1994 Rwanda Crisis, began ReliefWeb.int (the UN's first disaster web site) as a tool for sharing disaster information. Later headed up GDIN, the Global Disaster Information Network, a satellite information project proposed by former Vice President Al Gore. Sat on the SubCommittee on Disaster Reduction, which advised the President of the United States on disaster technology. Represented the United States at OECD (the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development) on projected systemic risks in the 21st century, including climate change. Honorary member of the Alegat Bedouin tribe of the Sinai and life-long camel rider. Does volunteer work with the Navajo and Pueblo Nations.
Link to Larry Roeder
· Larry Roeder, Jr. at the Virginia State Democratic Convention, 2008
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List of Family Links
Consul General Larry W. Roeder in the American Field Service in World War Two (narrative)
Consul General Larry W. Roeder in the American Field Service (Power Point Presentation)
February, 1945 King Saud on Board the USS Quincy in Great Bitter lake, Suez Canal.
April 6-11, 1945 Trip by Everett Dirksen to Lebanon and Syria.
Bahrain The Caliph and Larry Roeder
Bahrain Pictures of Clarence McIntosh
Select Bibliography
The Arts
· 2004 Guernica
Animal Welfare
2007 Co-Author - Protecting Animals from Disasters
26 April, 2007 Presentation on how FAO should inform and support producers in developing countries for the benefit of promoting good animal welfare practices.
2005 Coordinator of Panel on Protecting Animals from Disasters at WCDR, World Conference on Disaster Reduction while Policy Adviser on Disaster Management, US Department of State.
Climate Change
2009 Develops proposal to protect Small island States
2009 Call for Action at the UN General Assembly, first time for an animal welfare official.
2009 Report to the Secretary General of the United Nations on Climate Change.
2009 Risk Reduction and Climate Change, co-authored with Dr. David Stone, Director of ProAct Network, Geneva, and Marcus Oxley, Chair Global Network of Civil Society Organizations for Disaster Reduction
2009 Climate Change and Animal Welfare, co-authored with Jennifer Lanier, Ph.D., WSPA,
2009 Global Fresh Water
Crisis, co-authored with Prof.
Narendra Kumar , Secretary General , Global Forum for Disaster Management,
Dr.Lalit P.Chaudhari ,Vice President ,ISDR, India
Disaster Management
Jun, 2005 (co-author) Grand Challenges for Disaster Reduction, by National Science and Technology Council, Committee on Environment and Natural Resources., A report of the Subcommittee on Disaster Reduction.
4-7 October, 2004, Cairo, Egypt. , Regional Seminar on "the role of information and communications technologies in protecting man and the Environment. Headquarters of the League of Arab States. Keynote address by Larry Roeder, also on 7 October, 2004 "The Tampere Convention on the Provision of Telecommunication Resources for Disaster Mitigation and Relief Operations" and "The goals of the Global Disaster Information Network “GDIN”, to provide emergency telecommunications to indigenous populations", 7 October, 2007, Chair of "ICT in Health and Environmental Management."
2003 Emerging Risks in the 21st Century: An Agenda for Action., Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, Paris. Collaborated as a researcher and author on Steering Committee of Study
Summer, 2001 - “Crisis information is the new relief commodity,” Humanitarian Affairs Review
July, 2001, discussions on use of StratoSat systems for global disaster monitoring, reported in page 25 and 50 of Universities Space Research Association Research Contract No.: 07600-58.
June, 1999, Avoiding "The Second Disaster," by Alan Kotok in Electronic Commerce World, June, 1999, Vol 9, Number 6, pg 6 and 21. Covers my work on ReliefWeb and REMAPS.
October 13, 1999, ERAST: Scientific Applications and Technology Commercialization, Proceedings of addresses, sessions, and workshops of the NASA ERAST, Exclusive Preview sponsored by NASA Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, Pages 23=32 Address by Larry Roeder on the use of unmanned solar powered vehicles to protected endangered species in Kenya, and manage natural and man made disasters. (published, September, 2000) www.nasa.gov/centers/dryden/pdf/88678main_H-2383.pdf
June 30, 1999, Legal Limits on Access to and Disclosure of Disaster Information, by National Academy of Public Administration, NAPA . I did not write this report; but was one of the people who contributed information to the authors. See Appendix C, page 4. For a summary copy of the report, go to the Management Studies portion of website http://www.napawash.org/napa/index.html.
Aug 17, 1998, "33 Nations Support International Agreement to Help Agencies Avoid Telecommunications Delays during Emergencies," Monday Developments, Volunteers in Tech Assistance, Vol. 16, No 15.
Nov, 1997, Harnessing information and Technology for Disaster Management: The Global Disaster Information Network (GDIN): Disaster Information Task Force Report, November, 1997. I wrote chapter seven of this book "Global Considerations," pp 82-88. See also page ii, where I am listed as a member of the GDIN Steering Committee.
16 November 1994 in Geneva. First introduction of ReliefWeb (then called ReliefNet) to the Working Group on Emergency Telecommunications (WGET). Speech explained goals for project, which became the UN's first major disaster web site.
Politics, Economics and Sociology
· 2005 Speaking Out - A Protest over Human Rights,
· May, 1995, "Economic Sanctions, a Handbook," Bureau of International Organizations, U.S. Department of State.,
· July 1991, "Informal Suggestions for Transforming the Albanian Economy," the East-European Committee, Economic and Business Affairs Bureau , U.S. Department of State.,
· July 1991, "Mechanics of Diplomacy: The ABCs of Sanctions," Foreign Service Journal, Vol. 68, No. 1.,
· May 1991, " Albania 's Awakening," Foreign Service Journal, Vol. 68, No. 5.
Anthropolgy
Aug 1989, "Trial Law and Tribal Solidarity in Sinai Bedouin Culture, The Story of Besha," Anthropos, a German journal of anthropology.
Various Articles on Egyptian Tourist Locations published in Cairo Today
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