as a staff member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Personal life Garvelink is married to Linda A. Garvelink, whom he met in high school, and is a banking industry specialist. Published works Garvelink has written many published works, including: Humanitarian Assistance Intervention in Complex Emergencies: Information Requirements in the 1990s* Complex Emergencies in Africa in the 1990s: The Role of Technology* Special Report: United States Response to the Earthquake in Bam, Iran* *edited by Jim Whitman and David Pocock, St. Martin's Press, Inc., 1996 *in Meeting the Challenge of International Peace Operations: Assessing the Contribution of Technology, edited by Alex Gliksman (proceedings of a conference sponsored by the Center for Global Security Research, June 1998 and held in Livermore, California September 9–10, 1996) *in The Liaison (Journal of Civil-Military Humanitarian Relief Collaboration), Volume 3, Number 2, 2004 References External links Ambassadors of the United States to the Democratic Republic of the Congo Calvin University alumni University of Minnesota alumni Living people 1949 births United States Foreign Service personnel