Biography of Roger P. Winter
Assistant Administrator for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance
 Roger P. Winter was sworn in on January 31, 2002, as assistant administrator for democracy, conflict and humanitarian
assistance of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). USAID is the government agency that administers
economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide.
Winter was director of USAID's Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance from May 2001 until assuming his present position.
Before joining USAID, Winter served as executive director of the U.S. Committee for Refugees (USCR) from 1981 to 2001.
Winter has far-reaching field experience in Africa, Southeast Asia, the former Soviet Union, and Central America.
He has researched and written extensively and conducted media outreach to raise the profile of refugee issues around the world.
He also served as director of the U.S. Office of Refugee Resettlement in the former Department of Health, Education and
Welfare during portions of both the Carter and Reagan administrations. Prior to that, he worked 10 years as an official
with the state of Maryland. His early career was devoted to anti-poverty and civil rights programs in Boston, Chicago and
Central Connecticut.
Winter has a bachelor's degree from Wheaton College in Illinois and is the recipient of an honorary doctor of laws
degree from Holy Family College in Pennsylvania.
He and his wife, Delorise Allen Winter, live in Woodbine, Md. They have three children and two grandchildren.
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