COL (Ret) Morrison retired from the Canadian Forces in the summer of 2001 with 37 years of military service. While on active duty, he served in a variety of command, staff, and training positions, including service with the United Nations Mission in Cyprus.

He has also served on the staff of Headquarters Allied Forces Northwestern Europe, a NATO Major Subordinate Command, as Chief Crisis Response, Exercise and Evaluation Branch. Additionally he was seconded by the Canadian Department of National Defence to the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre where he was a senior member of the faculty with specific responsibility for conducting the Centre's flagship course: The Advanced Course – Issues in Modern Peacekeeping.

He is an external faculty member of the Pearson Peacekeeping Centre with experience conducting Disarmament, Demobilization & Reintegration courses at the Koffi Anan Centre in Accra, Ghana; facilitating a Peace Support Operations module at the Inter-American Defence College in Washington, DC; conducting the Military Core Competencies in Peace Support Operations course and a CIMIC program; facilitating on Negotiation and Legal Framework of Modern Peacekeeping courses; and working as a Directing Staff member on a major peacekeeping exercise conducted for the German/Netherlands Corps Headquarters.

Colonel Morrison has also worked extensively as a facilitator for the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance on numerous Peace Operations Seminars throughout the Asia-Pacific region. He has also instructed on Enhanced International Peacekeeping Capabilities Instructors and Planning Peace Operations Courses and other training/education events conducted by the Center for Civil-Military Relations, US Navy Post-Graduate School Monterey, California. Additionally he has assisted in the development and conduct of a joint US Army Pacific – Indonesian Command Post Exercise on peacekeeping operations.

Mr. Morrison has a Bachelors of Science Degree from Acadia University in Wolfville, Nova Scotia. He is also a graduate of the Canadian Land Forces Command and Staff College, the British Army Division 1 Technical Staff Officers Course at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, United Kingdom and the Canadian Forces Command and Staff College.

LTCOL (Ret) Derick is currently the Peace Operations Advisor to the Center for Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance in Honolulu, Hawaii.

He came to the Center for Excellence in 2002, after retiring from the Royal Malaysian Rangers with a long and productive career. His active duty career included a variety of very successful operational, training, and command assignments.

Mr. Derick has a very extensive background in UN Peacekeeping operations and training. While assigned to the Rangers, he served 16 months on the UN peacekeeping mission in Cambodia. As the first Commandant of the Malaysian Peacekeeping Centre, he was responsible for the development of its peace operations support training programmes and activities for the Malaysian Armed Forces. In February 1999 he was posted to UN Headquarters in New York as Head of the Training Cell in the Training and Evaluation Services, Department of Peacekeeping Operations where he has advised various UN Member States on UN PKO training initiatives.

Since joining COE, Mr. Derick has been instrumental in development and presentation of numerous Peacekeeping training events as well as serving as an advisor in the development and implementation of the UN's Standardized Training Modules.

CAPT (Ret) Ahmed is a retired Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) Captain, having served over 30 years in various operational, command and staff positions. His last active duty assignment was as Senior Officer Afloat with the RMN fleet.

His peacekeeping experience includes serving as a Military Observer in Liberia (UNOMIL) from October 1992 until September 1993. He also served as a Liaison Officer in Somalia for the withdrawal of UNOSOM II during the Spring of 1994.

Captain Ahmad was appointed as Commandant of the Malaysian Peacekeeping Training Centre from March 1999 until December 2002. As Commandant of the Malaysian Peacekeeping Training Centre, Captain Ahmad developed and conducted various peacekeeping training courses for local and international participants.

In January, 2003 he was seconded as a Training Advisor to the Department of Peacekeeping Operations (DPKO), United Nations Headquarters, New York from January 2003 until December 2005.

While serving as a Training Advisor with the Training and Evaluation Service/Integrated Training Service (TES/ITS) DPKO, Captain Ahmad was appointed as Head of Program Management and Head of Evaluation.

Captain Ahmad conducted various peacekeeping courses all over the world during his tour of duty with DPKO.

Mr. Kevin Delmour is the Exercise Support Coordinator, arranging exercise support with the Center's Civil-Military Relations Unit. In this capacity he is the focal point for issues related to COE's support to national and international exercise programs for U. S. and foreign military, and non-governmental and international humanitarian organizations, with a focus on civil-military coordination and interagency processes. Kevin has completed the United Nations Training Assistance Team (UNTAT) Course held in Jakarta, Indonesia during March 2005.

Kevin is a retired U. S. Marine Corps Colonel, having served in various command and staff positions. His twenty-six year career included extensive background in aircraft maintenance, operations, training, formal school instruction and curriculum development. Prior to coming to COE he served at Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific (MARFORPAC) for three years, which included 1 year as the G-1, Personnel Officer and 2 years in the G-3 Operations Division. His tenure in the G-3 included 1 year as the Current Operations Officer and 1 year as the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3. In this capacity he was responsible for the training and operational deployments of all U. S. Marine Corps forces in the Pacific. Other military assignments include a tour as Squadron Commanding Officer, HMH-366; assignment to the Marine Corps Presidential Helicopter Squadron, HMX-1, where he served as a Presidential Helicopter Pilot and the aircraft maintenance officer. Prior to this assignment, he was a helicopter weapons and tactics instructor at the Marine Corps Weapons and Tactics Squadron, MAWTS-1.

A native of New Jersey, Kevin graduated from Steven's Institute of Technology with a Bachelor of Engineering in Mechanical Engineering. His military schooling includes the U. S. Marine Corps Amphibious Warfare and Command and Staff Schools non-resident programs. He also completed the U. S. Air Force Air War College Seminar Program. During his career, Kevin accumulated over 5,300 flight hours in several different models of helicopter.

Bobby Ray Gordon joined COE in September 2005 and is serving as the Humanitarian Operations Advisor in the Humanitarian Affairs and Practice Unit of the Center of Excellence in Disaster Management and Humanitarian Affairs.

From July 2002 to July 2005, Bobby Ray worked as a Protection Officer for the International Rescue Committee [IRC] under its SURGE Project with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees [UNHCR]. Under the SURGE Project, Bobby Ray was deployed as a Protection Officer by IRC to UNHCR Branch Office Colombo in Colombo, Sri Lanka in 2002-2003, where his work focused on protection issues facing internally displaced persons [IDPs] in Sri Lanka, refugee status determinations and refugee resettlement. From 2003 to 2004, Bobby Ray led the Protection Unit for UNHCR Sub-Office Herat in Herat, Afghanistan, addressing protection issues for IDPs, returning refugees, asylum seekers and refugees in Western Afghanistan. From 2004 to 2005, Bobby Ray was the Protection Officer assigned the Darfur Portfolio in UNHCR Branch Office Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan, where he represented UNHCR Darfur operations in UN operations in Khartoum.

In 1991-1992, Bobby Ray was a Peace Corps / United Nations Volunteer Programme volunteer assigned as a Legal Consultant to UNHCR Hong Kong. His work with UNHCR Hong Kong dealt with interviewing Vietnamese asylum seekers in Hong Kong and assessing their claims for refugee status determination.

From 1986 to 1991 and from 1992 to 2002, Bobby Ray practiced law in Honolulu, Hawaii, concentrating in civil litigation.

Bobby Ray received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1983 and a Juris Doctor degree from Wake Forest University School of Law in 1986.

Commander Parker joined the Royal Australian Navy (RAN) in 1980, and underwent the usual junior officer training, serving on several ships including the RAN's last aircraft carrier HMAS MELBOURNE. He qualified as a seaman officer in 1983, and sub-specialised as a Mine Warfare and Clearance Diving Officer in 1985. Over the next few years CMDR Parker served in several Clearance Diving Teams (CDT), and in Navy Headquarters in Canberra. In 1991 he deployed to Saudi Arabia and Kuwait as a member of a CDT for Operation DESERT STORM. Whilst in Kuwait, CMDR Parker was recognised for his work in defusing several Iraqi sea mines and anti-shipping missiles.

On return from the Middle East, CMDR Parker was posted in command of one the RAN's minor war vessels, HMAS BRUNEI, and then served as officer in charge of the RAN Diving School. On completion of his posting to the Diving School, he was posted to the officers' career management directorate in Navy HQ in Canberra. This posting was followed by the RAN Staff College, and then a posting to the Australian Defence Force Peacekeeping Centre (ADFPKC). It was during this period at the ADFPKC that he was temporarily loaned to the UN Special Commission in Iraq to assist with their search for weapons of mass destruction in that country.

In July 1999, CMDR Parker was loaned to the UN Mission in East Timor as a Military Liaison Officer. He was in Dili during the violence that erupted after the announcement of the results of the Popular Consultation, eventually being evacuated to Australia when the mission was forced to withdraw from the territory. CMDR Parker returned to East Timor when the mission redeployed to East Timor, and was primarily employed as a member of a border liaison team, overseeing the activities of the international and Indonesian forces.

After his time in East Timor, CMDR Parker returned to the RAN and served as the Executive Officer of a guided missile destroyer, and then an amphibious ship. It was on the latter he served for six months in the Arabian Gulf as part of the International Coalition against Terror, enforcing UN sanctions against Iraq.

In 2002 CMDR Parker assumed the position of Director of the ADFPKC, and whilst there he worked closely with the UN in the drafting of the UN Senior Mission Leaders Course. In 2005, CMDR Parker was posted as the Commanding Officer of HMAS HARMAN, the RAN's communications and support facility in Canberra.

In January 2006, CMDR Parker commenced a secondment to the UN's Integrated Training Service (ITS) in UNHQ New York. In this position he is responsible for the Mission Support section that provides support to the trainers in DPKO Field Missions, and assistance as required to UN Member States deploying personnel to UN peacekeeping missions. He also implemented a pre-deployment training program for civilian personnel new to peacekeeping operations.

CMDR Parker is married with two teenage children, he holds a Masters of Business Administration, and his hobby is the restoration and riding of vintage motorcycles.