Senior Vice President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), a leading non-sectarian, voluntary organization providing relief, protection, rehabilitation, and resettlement services for refugees and victims of oppression or violent conflict, George C. Biddle has lectured at numerous conferences and symposia over the past 20 years, with his commentary being carried on radio, television, and in the press. From 1997 through 1999, Mr. Biddle was Vice President of the International Crisis Group (ICG), a private, multinational organization committed to strengthening the capacity of the international community to understand and respond to man-made crises. Previously, Mr. Biddle was President of the Washington-based Institute for Central American Studies (ICAS), a nonprofit organization he founded in 1989 to assist post-Cold War Central America in its transition from violent conflict to peace and democ-racy. Before founding ICAS, Mr. Biddle served as Assistant to the President at the Institute for East-West Security Studies in New York from 1984 to 1986. He also serves on the EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE of the Coalition for International Justice and The Friends of the Bronx Charter School, the Advisory Board of Harvard University’s Project on Justice in Times of Transition, and the Advisory Council of The Harbor in New York City, an educational institution helping children in East Harlem. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.