Ervin J. Rokke
President, U.S. Air Force Academy Endowment
Ervin (Erv) Rokke is currently President of the United States Air
Force Academy Endowment after having served two years in
the Chair for Character and Leadership Development at the
Academy and nine years as President of Moravian College
and Moravian Theological Seminary in Bethlehem,
Pennsylvania.
Erv’s prior 35-year military career was distinguished by
operational, diplomatic, and academic leadership positions.
He served as a staff plans officer at NATO Headquarters in
Brussels, as an intelligence officer with U.S. Forces Japan, as
the National Security Agency’s associate director for support
to military operations, and as Dean of Faculty at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He was
also assigned as Air Attaché at the American Embassy in London; as Defense Attaché in
the former Soviet Union; as Director of Intelligence for the U.S. European Command in
Stuttgart, Germany; and as the Air Force’s Assistant Chief of Staff for Intelligence at the
Pentagon. Prior to assuming his duties as President of Moravian College in 1997, he
served as the President of the National Defense University, Washington, DC.
Erv is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations in New York and serves on the
Director of Central Intelligence’s Intelligence Science Board. He is a member of the
Board of Trustees of the Falcon Foundation as well as the National Museum of Industrial
History in Bethlehem, PA and serves on the Chairman’s Advisory Council of the U. S.
Institute of Peace. In recent years he has spent time as a fellow at the Australian
National Defense University and made substantial presentations at international
conferences in Romania, Serbia-Montenegro, and Germany. In May of 2006, Erv was
awarded the Jan Masaryk Silver Memorial Medal from the Czech Republic for his
contributions toward U.S.-Czech Republic relations.
Erv is a native of Warren, Minnesota. He graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in
1962 with a bachelor of science degree. He later earned a master's degree and a
doctorate in international relations from Harvard University.
He and his wife Pam have two children, Lisa and Eric.