Roger Aldrich, Director, Training Division, Center for Personal Protection and Safety

Mr. Aldrich is a well-known expert in travel safety and crisis survival. He served for 33 years with the Department of Defense (DoD) as an instructor, instructor trainer, curriculum developer, and director of the U.S. government’s only specialized, foreign governmental detention and hostage survival program for DoD’s and select other governmental agencies’ (OGA) highest risk operators. Mr. Aldrich was responsible for the successful training of over 60,000 military and civilian personnel during his unique career. He also conducted debriefings and interviews of several individuals who returned from captivity, ranging from Vietnam POWs and peacetime detainees, like the Navy EP-3 crew, held by the Peoples Republic of China in 2001, to terrorist victims such as Gracia Burnham, held by the Abu Sayef in the Philippines, and Roy Hallums, held by terrorists, in Iraq.

Since retiring from U.S. governmental civil service in 2004, Mr. Aldrich has created, developed and managed specialized, tailored captivity survival programs for the highest risk operational personnel in the State Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the Department of Homeland Security, and select OGAs.