Larry Winter Roeder, Jr., MS
Editor in Chief, Climate Caucus.Net

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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, refugees, IDPs and human rights. 

Currently Chief Executive Officer,  IFRescue

Former 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 21^st 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 with the Navajo Nation.

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.

Moki Kokoris    Email: moki@cloud9.net

UN/DPI representative for the World Federation of Ukrainian Women's Organizations. 14th woman to reach the North Pole; first Ukrainian. Founder of "90-north", an 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. Partial affiliations list: American Himalayan Foundation, Children of Chornobyl Relief Fund, North American Association for Environmental Education, Will Steger Institute for Climate Change Education, Polar Bears International, Byrd Polar Research Center.

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

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.

Jeff Huffines  Chairman of the NGO/DPI Executive Committee. 

Ex-Officio member of Working Group and UN Representative National Spiritual Assembly of the Baha'is of the U.S.

Current President of CONGO , Ex Officio member of Working Group.