President Roosevelt's Great-Grandson to Speak at Prov Committee on Foreign Relations Meeting

President Roosevelt's Great-Grandson to Speak at Prov Committee on Foreign Relations Meeting

The Providence Committee on Foreign Relations has announced that Tweed Roosevelt, the great-grandson of former President Theodore Roosevelt, will be the guest speaker at the next meeting.

Roosevelt will discuss how TR’s foreign policy, which was developed as the U.S. became truly a world power, affected subsequent presidents’ foreign policies.

The meeting will take place on Wednesday, November 6 at the Hope Club in Providence.

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Drinks begin at 6 p.m. and dinner will be served around 6:45 p.m.

About Tweed Roosevelt

In 1992, Roosevelt rafted down the 1,000-mile Rio Roosevelt in Brazil—a river previously explored by his great-grandfather in 1914 in the Roosevelt-Rondon Scientific Expedition and then called the Rio da Duvida, the River of Doubt. The former president almost died on that legendary and dangerous trip.

After graduation from Harvard, Roosevelt served for two years as a VISTA volunteer in Harlem, Bedford Stuyvesant, and the Lower East Side of New York City and went on to NYC’s Human Resources Administration. He subsequently earned his MBA and then taught for two years at Columbia University.

A long career in management consulting and finance culminated in his becoming Chairman of Roosevelt China Investments, which, among other businesses, owns and operates the House of Roosevelt on Shanghai’s Bund.

Over the years, Roosevelt has worked to further the memory of his great-grandfather. 

He has lectured and taught about TR at numerous institutions and schools around the world, including Harvard, Marshall, and Santa Clara Universities, ranging from single lectures to a 20-hour course that involved as guest speakers most of the well-known historians of TR.

He has also lectured on a wide range of other subjects, including conservation and the environment, hunting, politics, literature, history, mathematics, Japanese-American relations, and exploration, and has retraced many of TR’s adventures in the American West, Africa, and the Amazon.

He has appeared on numerous television documentaries and radio programs and was awarded the prestigious Telly Award for his public service announcement on presidential log cabins