Thomas Rogers is associate director of The Association of University Leaders for a Sustainable Future. He is also associate director of the Center for Respect of Life and Environment (CRLE) in Washington, DC. The Center seeks to awaken people's ecological sensibilities and to transform lifestyles, institutional practices, and social policies to support the whole life community. The Center's major programs identify and promote approaches to economic and social development that recognize links between ecology, spirituality and sustainability. Mr. Rogers also is national coordinator for the Earth Charter USA Campaign and co-coordinator of the Citizen's Network for Sustainable Development (CitNet).



Mr. Rogers serves as the official CRLE representative to the United Nations and has been actively involved in NGO activities at many major UN-sponsored global conferences including the Summit on Social Development, the 2nd UN Conference on Human Settlements (Habitat II), the Commission on Sustainable Development, and Rio+5. He served on the official US delegations to the UN Commission on Sustainable Development in 1998 and 1999.

Before joining CRLE in 1992, he worked for over 12 years in the fields of refugee services, international relief, and development in SE Asia, Africa and the United States. He established the first comprehensive program in Minnesota addressing refugee social adjustment problems while with Lutheran Social Services. He worked for three years during two tours with the International Catholic Migration Commission as a cultural orientation supervisor and then counseling coordinator at the Bataan Refugee Processing Center in the Philippines. Mr. Rogers was also country director in the Sudan, 1985-86, for the American Refugee Committee during the Ethiopian famine. In 1991-92, he directed the establishment of a USAID-funded child welfare program in Cambodia.

He has also served on numerous boards and advisory councils during his career. He is currently a member of the Board of Trustees of the International Development Conference, a member of the National Steering Committee of the Citizen's Network for Sustainable Development, and a member of the National Steering Committee of the Alliance for United Nations Sustainable Development Programs.

Mr. Rogers received his master's degree in Psychology from the Graduate School of Human Behavior, U.S. International University in San Diego, California. He received his bachelor's degree in Psychology and Philosophy from the University of Minnesota.

His publications include a Survey of Vietnamese Re-education Camp Veterans published by the International Catholic Migration Commission (co-investigator and co-author, 1990), "Sustainable Livelihoods in America" in Development: The Journal of the Society for International Development (co-author, 1995), "Case Studies on Sustainable Livelihoods" in Earth Ethics (Spring, 1995), Towards Sustainable Livelihoods (co-editor, 1996), and "Sustainable Livelihoods in North America" in Why (co-author, 1997).