BIO

Roy Popkin
Roy Popkin was associated with the American Red Cross for 42 years. When he retired he was Deputy National Director of the organization's Disaster Services. For many years his assignments included acting as liaison to the academic disaster research community. He served on a number of NSF project advisory committees and on the advisory board for the Natural Hazards Research Applications and Information Center at the University of Colorado. As a researcher he was a co-investigator for an NSF study of the aftermath of Hurricane Hugo and a NOVAD-funded study of the UN Needs of Disaster Victims, and Served on one of the task forces for the Presidents Commission on the Accident at Three Mile Island. Since retiring from the Red Cross he has written for Hazard Monthly and has been--and still is--a Senior Environmental Protection Agency employee (through a grantee).