Meeting with: Luke Beer, President, Rotary Club of Dupont Circle, Washington DC.

Introduction: Luke Beer

President, Rotary Club of Dupont Circle, Washington DC.

Past President & Founding Member Rotary Club of Kabul City.

Luke Beer, a native of Barrie, Canada, (where his grandfather was a lifelong Rotarian) went to Nasik, India as a Rotary International Youth Exchange Student in 2000. That experience spurred his international interest and led to him to study Russian and Eurasian Studies and an eventual internship at the Afghan Embassy in Ottawa.

In 2012, he started in Kabul managing a small Afghan owned development firm and later the country office of ANHAM logistics, the provider of food life support to the US military in Afghanistan. Thereafter he was the Operations Manager for an Afghan agricultural company that employed 100 employees, who daily provided 40 tonnes of Afghan produced fruits and vegetables to the United States military in Afghanistan. This was a first of its kind project for the…