[10] Roman Popadiuk was born on May 30, 1950, in a DP camp in Austria to Ukrainian parents brought to Germany as forced laborers.

[9] From 1995 to 1998, he served as the International Affairs Adviser on the staff of the Office of the Commandant at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C.[9] For 13 years from 1999 to 2012, he served as the executive director of the George Bush Presidential Library Foundation at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.

[9] Popadiuk is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and sits on the Board of Advisers of the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs at The Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University.

[1] he is on the Board of Advisers of the Confucius Institute at Texas A&M University[1] and the Washington, D.C.-based U.S.-Ukraine Business Council.

[6] He is married to Judith Ann Fedkiw, and they have four children, Gregory, Matthew, Catherine and Mary.