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Larry Winter Roeder, Jr.,
MS
Editor in Chief, Climate
Caucus.Net and UN Affairs
Director, WSPA World Society
for the Protection of
Animals
Email:
undirector@wspausa.org
Phone: 703-867-2056
Retired from US Department
of State as the Policy
Adviser on Disaster
Management. 35 years
experience in conflict
reduction, disaster
management, information
management, peace keeping,
science and technology,
economics, indigenous
peoples (bedouins and native
Americans), refugees, IDPs and
human rights.
Currently serves as Director
for United Nations Affairs,
WSPA, World Society for the
Protection of Animals.
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.
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. Does volunteer work
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Richard Jordan
Liaison to the Executive
Committee Email:
dpiconference@yahoo.com
Bio: Richard Jordan was the
60th DPI/NGO Conference
Chairman. Over the course of
his 22 years at the UN, Mr.
Jordan has represented a
number of NGOs affiliated
with DPI and ECOSOC, most
notably Global Education
Associates and currently
International Council for
Caring Communities. Among
his most notable
achievements is having been
one of the five co-founding
editors of the Earth
Negotiations Bulletin (ENB),
the journal of record at
environment and development
meetings worldwide.
Mr. Jordan has also been a
member of the Board of
Directors of the NGO
Committee on Peace,
Development and Security,
Symphony for United Nations
and Friends of the United
Nations, and is the Chairman
of the CONGO NGO Committee
on the UN and Sports.
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Moki Kokoris
Email:
moki@cloud9.net
DPI representative for the
World Federation of
Ukrainian Women's
Organizations. 14th woman to
reach the
North Pole; first
Ukrainian. Founder of "90-north.com",
an outreach environmental
educational program, the
objective of which is to
teach young students about
the polar biospheres and how
climate change
affects them - with a
specific focus on the
indigenous peoples of the
Arctic. Contributing
Arctic Editor to "The Polar
Times", the journal of the
American Polar Society.
Member National (MN) of the
Explorers Club.
Visiting Speaker for the
Arctic Consortium of the
United States (ARCUS).
Architect by degree, with
particular interests in LEED
green and
sustainable design.
Graphic artist,
calligrapher, illustrator
and music teacher.
Partial affiliations
list: Will
Steger Institute
for
Climate Change Education, North
American Association
for Environmental
Education, Byrd
Polar Research Center
at
Ohio State University,
Polar Bears
International, the American
Himalayan Foundation,
Children of Chornobyl
Relief Fund,
Guiding Eyes for the
Blind, Ukrainian
Scouts.
Coordinator-in-Chief of
the
Indigenous Peoples
Chapter and
Coordinator-in-Chief of
upcoming chapter on
Climate Change
Education.
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William Gellermann, PhD.
Email:
gmann@earthlink.net
Ph.D. in Applied Behavioral
Sciences from UCLA --
faculty member at SUNY (
Buffalo ), Cornell and CUNY
( Richmond College ).
Consultant since 1970
(clients included major
corporations, labor unions,
civil rights groups, and
government agencies at
federal, state, and city
level); author of Values and
Ethics in Organization and
Human Systems Development
(1990, Jossey-Bass) --
Retired in 2000. Joined
Communications Coordination
Committee for the UN (CCC/UN)in
2003; Co-Chair of CCC/UN
Board in 2007 and Vice
President 2004-2007. Member
of DPI/NGO Conference
Planning Committee in 2004,
2005, 2006. and 2007.
(Co-Chair of Networking
Sub-Committee 2007).
Coordinates the Tipping
Point Working Group |
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Dr. Charles (Chuck) G.
Hitchcock
EMail:
hitchcock.charles@gmail.com
Retired from Southampton
College of Long Island
University. For thirty-five
years a Professor of
Sociology; for the last five
years, Dean of the College.
Began career with the Peace
Corps in East Pakistan,
1961-63. Community
activities include Chair of
the East Hampton Town Zoning
Board of Appeals, Chair of
the Retreat (a domestic
violence agency), Chair of
Alternatives Counseling
Services, member of Springs
School Board, and member of
East Hampton Library Board.
Presently, a NGO delegate
from Peace Action
International to the Civil
Society of the UN.
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Jefferey Huffines Chairman of
the NGO/DPI Executive
Committee.
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Ex-Officio member of Working
Group and UN Representative
National Spiritual Assembly
of the Baha'is of the U.S.
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Current President of CONGO ,
Ex Officio member of Working
Group. |
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