Background
Roosevelt is a great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Roosevelt is a great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt.
Harvard Business School. Harvard University.
Roosevelt is also a prominent conservationist. Roosevelt earned his bachelor"s degree from Harvard University in 1965. After college, he was commissioned on as an ensign in the Naval Reserve on June 16, 1965, and he served as a United States. Navy officer with Underwater Demolition Team 11 (BUD/South Class 36).
After completing BUDS he served for two years in Vietnam with the Navy SEALs.
He remained in the Naval Reserve after leaving active duty and was promoted to lieutenant commander on April 1, 1974. He then served in the United States. State Department as a foreign service officer in Washington, District of Columbia and the Upper Volta.
He is also a Counselor for the China–United States. Center for Sustainable Development. He is on the Board of Advisors of the cross-partisan grassroots campaign Represent.Us, where he served as a consultant in the crafting of the American Anti-Corruption Acting.
At the Republican Convention in 2000, Roosevelt gave the speech on the environment.
He gave the keynote speech at the National Governors Association Annual Meeting in 2001 as well as the keynote address at the Governors Conference on Climate Change in April 2008 sponsored by Yale University. Most recently, he spoke at the Conference of Parties Climate Summit in December 2009 in Copenhagen sponsored by the European Union Parliament. He was an early supporter of Jon Huntsman, Junior."s 2012 Presidential bid.
He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Economic Club of New York, and the Foreign Policy Association. He later earned an Master of Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, where he was a member of the Harvard Business School Rugby Club. Roosevelt is Chair of the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions, a Trustee of the Alliance for Climate Protection, a member of the Governing Council of the The Wilderness Society (United States), and a Trustee for the American Museum of Natural History, the World Resources Institute, and The Cultural Institutions Retirement System.