RUDOLPH VON BERNUTH
VP OF SAVE THE CHILDREN
TO SPEAK APRIL 14TH

Rudolph von Bernuth, Vice President of Save The Children, will cover activities in South Asia, how funds are being used, how organizations work together, what progress is being made, and what impact the recent earthquake had made on relief efforts - and what are the plans for the future. He will also talk, from a humanitarian assistance viewpoint, about other hot spots in the world, such as Sudan, Ethiopia, Afghanistan, Iraq, etc.

Rudolph von Bernuth is Vice President of Save the Children's Children in Emergencies and Crisis Division. He is responsible for overseeing the organization's international work in emergencies, food security for children in conflicts and child protection programs.  He has worked for Save the Children since 1992 

Mr. von Bernuth has 31 years of experience in managing international development and emergency relief programs. A graduate of Columbia University, he began his international career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Colombia in 1968. He joined CARE in 1970 and worked in Turkey and Colombia, later served as Country Director in Thailand and Bangladesh. In 1984, he became Director of Program Administration at CARE's headquarters in New York, where he also served as Vice President.

In his CARE tenure, he coordinated major emergency initiatives throughout Africa, secured long term grant support to develop institutional capacity in population, health, small business development and agro forestry, and doubled CARE's annual grant and contract income over a five-year period from $75 million to $150 million. He worked with Save the Children from 1992 to 1995, and again from 1997 to the present. While with Save the Children, he pioneered programming in the newly emerging states of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.  

He also has served as Executive Director of the International Council of Voluntary Agencies (ICVA ), based in Geneva, Switzerland. There, he led a unique global forum of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), promoted their interests to the UN and promoted the development of NGOs in newly emerging civil societies.

Mr. von Bernuth has served on USAID's Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Assistance. From 1992 to 1995 and again in 1997 and 1998 he served as InterAction's representative to the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (now OCHA) and to the Inter Agency Standing Committee Working Group (IASCWG). In June 1998, Mr. von Bernuth served as team leader for a UN assessment to address the problems and needs of the Semipalatinsk nuclear test site territory in Kazakhstan.