The Foreign Service Journal - November 2017

THE FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL | NOVEMBER 2017 77 tated Saudi membership in the World Trade Organization and helped initiate the U.S.-Saudi Business Forum and the economic dialogue of the Gulf Coopera- tion Council. As deputy chief of mission in Belize (1996-1998), he managed the U.S. counter-narcotics assistance program, while also indulging an avid interest in reef diving off the second-largest coral reef in the world. After retiring from the Foreign Service in 1998, Mr. Parker remained engaged in economic diplomacy. From 1999 to 2007 he was a consultant in the Bureau of Euro- pean and Eurasian Affairs on energy secu- rity, terrorist financing and cooperation with the European Union on the Broader Middle East and North Africa Initiative. From 2008 to 2009 he was a senior analyst in the Combined Intelligence Operations Center in Baghdad. And from 2009 to 2015 he worked for the Joint Chiefs of Staff on emerging trends in the global economy and their implications for U.S. security interests. Mr. Parker moved with his wife, Caro- line Parker, toWilmington, N.C., in April 2017. He is survived by his wife and their two sons, Frank Parker of Shanghai, China, and Alexander Parker of Fairfax, Va. Q Alan Lewis Roecks, 70, a retired Foreign Service officer, died on July 6 in Spokane, Wash. Mr. Roecks was born on Feb. 15, 1947, in Spokane, Wash., to Bettie and Albert Roecks. He grew up on a wheat farm in Rock Creek Valley, where he spent sum- mers helping his family. He attended Liberty High School in Spangle, Wash., and was active on the basketball and football teams, graduating in 1965 as salutatorian. He went on to double major at Wash- ington State University, earning degrees in