Roan Conrad, Director of NOAA Office of Sustainable Development, Former Print and NBC News Journalist, to Address Daemen College Class of 2002
April 10, 2002Contact: Mike AndreiDirector-College Relations(716) 839-8472[email protected]
Roan Conrad, director of the Office of Sustainable Development and Intergovernmental Affairs at the headquarters of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in Washington, D.C., will deliver the commencement address to the Daemen College Class of 2002. The ceremonies will take place 2 p.m., Saturday, May 18, at Kleinhans Music Hall.
Conrad was promoted to his current position in 1998; previously, he served four years as chief of external affairs for the Office of Sustainable Development and Intergovernmental Affairs. Before joining NOAA, Conrad pursued a varied career in journalism and management. During 14 years with NBC News in New York City, he supervised national political and election night coverage, as director of special political coverage and as network political editor -- assignments which took him to virtually every state. Conrad was also associate producer for two major NBC News documentaries on the Reagan Administration.
Earlier, Conrad was managing editor of the Morning Pioneer, a daily newspaper in his hometown of Bismarck, North Dakota. He also served as president of the North Dakota Associated Press. In the early 1970's, Conrad was the founding managing editor of Corrections Magazine, a publication concerned with prison reform, funded by the American Bar Association.
Conrad began his journalism career in Washington in 1966, as a reporter and editor for the widely respected Congressional Quarterly Weekly Report. In 1969, he was a founding editor of National Journal, an award-winning weekly magazine devoted to the world of Washington policy-making and politics.
As an editorial and public affairs consultant, Conrad has completed assignments for a broad range of private sector and nonprofit groups, including The Ford Foundation, the Environmental Law Institute, the Municipal Arts Society of New York, and all the major television networks. He has also been an invited participant in many public policy conferences and seminars at institutions such as Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, The Brookings Institution, and the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington.
Conrad is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stanford University, and holds a master's degree in history from Harvard, where he was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow.
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