Before he joined AID,Garvelink was a professional staff member of the Subcommittee on International Organizations and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the U.S. House of Representatives. His responsibilities included oversight of USAID’s worldwide humanitarian assistance and democracy programs. Offices within the Bureau for Democracy,Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance include the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance,Office of Transition Initiatives,Office of Food for Peace,Office of Democracy and Governance,Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation and the Office of Private and Voluntary Cooperation. He is a minister counselor of the Senior Foreign Service.
Before his appointment as ambassador,Garvelinkwas from 1999 the USAID mission director in Eritrea. He administered a development and relief program worth more than $55 million US dollars.
Garvelink received six Performance Awards,two Meritorious Honor Awards,a Superior Honor Award and a Senior Foreign Service Presidential Meritorious Service Award during his time with the U.S. Department of State.[4]
From 1988 until 1999,Garvelink worked in the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA),first as the assistant director for response and then as the deputy director. While in OFDA,he directed relief operations in Africa,Asia,Latin America,the Near East,Europe and in the former Soviet Union. He led many Disaster Assistance Response Teams,or DARTs,to parts of Albania,Armenia,Democratic Republic of the Congo,Haiti,Iraq,Kenya,Rwanda,Somalia and Iran. He chaired the USAID Task Force for the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami,the Task Force for the Pakistani Earthquake and the Lebanese Task Force.
Before the OFDA,Garvelink spent two years in the Department of State's Bureau for Population,Refugees and Migration with responsibilities for much of southern Africa. He was appointed for four years in Bolivia for USAID and spent three years as a staff member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.[citation needed]
Personal life
Garvelink is married to Linda A. Garvelink,whom he met in high school,and is a banking industry specialist.
Published works
Garvelink has written many published works,including:
Humanitarian Assistance Intervention in Complex Emergencies:Information Requirements in the 1990sedited by Jim Whitman and David Pocock,St. Martin's Press,Inc.,1996
"Complex Emergencies in Africa in the 1990s:The Role of Technology" in Meeting the Challenge of International Peace Operations:Assessing the Contribution of Technology,edited by Alex Gliksman (proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Center for Global Security Research,June 1998 and held in Livermore,California September 9–10,1996)
"Special Report:United States Response to the Earthquake in Bam,Iran" in The Liaison (Journal of Civil-Military Humanitarian Relief Collaboration),3:2,2004
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