ClearCause Foundation Names Ed Lee as New Safety Advisor
ClearCause Foundation welcomes Ed Lee, Travel Abroad Safety Specialist, to its advisory board. Ed will be working with ClearCause as a subject matter expert defining education services and reporting to keep kids safe abroad.
Online, January 25, 2012 (Newswire.com) - ClearCause Foundation today announced its newest advisor, Ed Lee, Global Security and Safety Specialist and CEO of Sleeping Bear Risk Solutions. Mr. Lee will be responsible for ongoing safety and security outreach aimed at keeping America's youth and students safe overseas in addition to advocacy efforts across a range of priority efforts.
"ClearCause is truly fortunate to welcome such a prestigious and experienced safety and security expert to its advisory board," said Annamarie Saarinen, ClearCause Director. "With his breadth of experience in global safety and security expertise, Ed will enrich ClearCause Foundation's outreach, service capabilities and support our advocacy programs to address today's most pressing safety abroad challenges for America's youngest global travelers going on student travel, adventure, cultural exchange, volunteer and study abroad programs."
"I am delighted to join ClearCause, an organization devoted to my life's passion - keeping Americans safe at home and abroad," said Ed Lee. "I have worked with the United States Department of State as special agent and senior Regional Security Officer (RSO) at multiple embassies in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East. I've resided in eight foreign countries and worked in 65 others. I'm delighted to bring my expertise to such a clear cause - keeping our kids safe abroad."
ClearCause Founder, Sheryl Hill, said, "Mr. Lee has handled virtually every type of security emergency that can occur in a foreign country. We are honored and privileged to have his expertise."
In addition to his work at the US Department of State and Sleeping Bear Risk Solutions, Ed Lee is author of Staying Safe Abroad: Traveling, Working and Living in a Post-9/11 World Safety Abroad. Ed was also Foreign Service Institute's principal speaker on "Personal Security Abroad," where he taught ten-thousand U.S. diplomats and their families how to stay safe abroad. Simultaneously, Ed served as the Inter-American Development Bank's security advisor, conducting field investigations, security upgrades, security audits and program reviews for 27 bank offices.
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ClearCause Foundation (CCF) is a nonprofit public awareness and advocacy organization founded in June, 2011 to keep America's youth and student safe on programs abroad in $17 billion plus federally unregulated industry.
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