Officers and Directors

Officers:

Vin Weber (Chairman) is managing partner of Clark & Weinstock''s Washington office. Mr. Weber provides strategic advice to institutions with matters before the legislative and executive branches of the Federal government.

Mr. Weber is Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, nonprofit organization designed to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. He is a senior fellow at the Humphrey Institute at the University of Minnesota, where he is co-director of the Policy Forum (formerly the Mondale Forum). Mr. Weber is a board member of several private sector and non-profit organizations, including ITT Educational Services, Department 56, and the Aspen Institute. He also serves on the Board of The Council on Foreign Relations and co-chaired a major independent task force on U.S. Policy Toward Reform in the Arab World with former U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. In addition, Mr. Weber is a member of the U.S. Secretary of Energy''s Advisory Board.

Mr. Weber is one of the most prominent and successful strategists in the Republican Party and served as the Bush-Cheney ''04 Plains States Regional Chairman. He has been featured in numerous national publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, the Associated Press, National Journal, and The New Republic. Mr. Weber is a sought-after political and policy analyst, appearing frequently on major television outlets, including NBC''s Nightly News, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer on PBS, ABC''s This Week, the CBS Early Show, Fox News Channel, CNN, and MSNBC.

Prior to opening Clark & Weinstock''s Washington office in 1994, Mr. Weber was president - and co-director with Jack Kemp, Jeane Kirkpatrick and Bill Bennett - of Empower America, a public policy advocacy group.

Mr. Weber served in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1993, representing Minnesota''s 2nd Congressional District. He was a member of the Appropriations Committee and an elected member of the House Republican Leadership. Prior to his Congressional service, he served as campaign manager and chief Minnesota aide to Sen. Rudy Boschwitz (1978-1980), and as the co-publisher of The Murray County Herald (1976-1978).

Mr. Weber continues to enjoy strong bipartisan relationships across the legislative and executive branches of government. He and his wife Cheryl have two daughters. The Webers maintain homes in Alexandria, Virginia and Walker, Minnesota.

William A. Galston is a Senior Fellow in the Brookings Institution''s Governance Studies Program. Prior to January 2006 he was Saul Stern Professor at the School of Public Policy, University of Maryland, director of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, and founding director of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement (CIRCLE).

From 1993 until 1995 he served as Deputy Assistant to President Clinton for Domestic Policy. His other political activities include service as issues director for Walter Mondale''s presidential campaign (1982-1984), as a senior advisor to Albert Gore, Jr.''s run for the Democratic presidential nomination (1988) and again as a senior advisor to Gore''s presidential campaign (1999-2000).

Galston is the author of eight books and more than 100 articles in the fields of political theory, public policy, and American politics. His most recent books are Liberal Pluralism (Cambridge, 2002), The Practice of Liberal Pluralism (Cambridge, 2004), and Public Matters (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005).

Richard Gephardt, the former Minority Leader of the House of Representatives has been a longtime supporter of the Endowment and its work – meeting many times over the years with NED grantees from all over the world. Gephardt was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1976 and has served as both the Majority and Minority Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives and as one of the nation’s leading Democrats for much of the last two decades. He is an expert on economic issues and foreign affairs, and is an eloquent voice for fairness, justice, tolerance and human rights.

Suzanne R. Garment is an associate in taxation at the Clifford Chance US LLP law firm, and a former Special Assistant to the U.S. Permanent Representative to the U.N. She served as assistant professor of political science at Yale University for five years, and was The Wall Street Journal''s associate editor of the editorial page for 10 years.

Robert Miller is an attorney who has spent most of his practice dedicated to charitable foundations and devising innovative solutions to the organization and administration of grant functions of foundations. He is currently at Davidson, Dawson & Clark in New York, is Director of the Foreign Policy Association, and the Director of Leaders in Furthering Education. The Hurford Foundation, which is chaired by Miller, was established by the late John B. Hurford, who had been a dedicated member of the NED Board.

Lee H. Hamilton Lee H. Hamilton is president and director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and director of The Center on Congress at Indiana University. Hamilton represented Indiana''s 9th congressional district for 34 years beginning January 1965. He served as chairman and ranking member of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, chaired the Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Select Committee to Investigate Covert Arms Transactions with Iran, the Joint Economic Committee, and the Joint Committee on the Organization of Congress. As a member of the House Standards of Official Conduct Committee Hamilton was a primary draftsman of several House ethics reforms.

Hamilton was named co-chair of the Iraq Study Group, a forward looking, bi-partisan assessment of the situation in Iraq, created at the urging of Congress. Hamilton served as Vice-Chair of the 9/11 Commission and co-chaired the 9/11 Public Discourse Project to monitor implementation of the Commission''s recommendations. He is currently a member of the President''s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the President''s Homeland Security Advisory Council, the FBI Director''s Advisory Board, the CIA Director''s Economic Intelligence Advisory Panel, the Defense Secretary''s National Security Study Group, and the US Department of Homeland Security Task Force on Preventing the Entry of Weapons of Mass Effect on American Soil.

Hamilton is a graduate of DePauw University and Indiana University school of law. Before his election to Congress Hamilton practiced law in Chicago, Illinois, and Columbus, Indiana. Hamilton is the author of A Creative Tension - The Foreign Policy Roles of the President and Congress; How Congress Works and Why You Should Care; and co-author of Without Precedent: The Inside Story of the 9/11 Commission.

The Laura Spelman Rockefeller professor of social and political ethics at the University of Chicago, Jean Bethke Elshtain is a political philosopher who focuses on the connections between political and ethical convictions. She serves as co-chair of the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, and chair of The Council on Families in America.

She has also served as chair of the Council on Civil Society and has written extensively on such topics as democracy and its problems, as well as sovereignty and international relations.

A professional diplomat, Ambassador Richard Holbrooke was Permanent United States Representative to the United Nations from 1999 to 2001. He began his career as a Foreign Service officer in 1962 but left in 1972 to become managing editor of the quarterly magazine Foreign Policy, a position he held until 1976. In 1977, he was appointed by President Jimmy Carter as Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs.

Ambassador Holbrooke has had a very active career in the nonprofit sector, serving as chairman of Refugees International from 1996 to 1999, two-time board member of the International Rescue Committee, founding chairman of the American Academy in Berlin, and director of the Council on Foreign Relations.

One of Ambassador Holbrooke''s books, To End a War, was ranked among the best books of the year in 1998 by the New York Times. He is also the co-author of Counsel to the President, the best-selling memoirs of Clark Clifford, as well as numerous articles on foreign policy.

Ambassador Holbrooke completed his undergraduate education at Brown University and has received twelve honorary degrees from U.S. and international universities. He is also the recipient of numerous awards.

Carl Gershman is President of the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, congressionally supported grant-making institution with the mission to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. In addition to presiding over the Endowment''s grants program in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Latin America, he has overseen the creation of the quarterly Journal of Democracy, International Forum for Democratic Studies, and the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program. He also took the lead in launching in New Delhi in 1999 the World Movement for Democracy, which is a global network of democracy practitioners and scholars. Mr. Gershman is currently encouraging other democracies to establish their own foundations devoted to the promotion of democratic institutions in the world.

Prior to assuming the position with the Endowment, Mr. Gershman was Senior Counselor to the United States Representative to the United Nations, in which capacity he served as the U.S. Representative to the U.N.''s Third Committee that deals with human rights issues, and also as Alternate Representative of the U.S. to the U.N. Security Council.

While at the U.S. Mission to the U.N., Mr. Gershman also served as lead consultant to the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, and helped draft the final report.

Prior to his assignment at the United States Mission to the United Nations, Mr. Gershman was a Resident Scholar at Freedom House and Executive Director of Social Democrats, USA.

Mr. Gershman has lectured extensively and written articles and reviews on foreign policy issues for such publications as: Commentary, The New Leader, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Democratization, The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Washington Quarterly, and the Journal of Democracy. He is the co-editor of Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East (Bantam, 1972) and the author of The Foreign Policy of the American Labor (Sage, 1975). He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Council on Foreign Relations.

He received The Order of the Knight''s Cross, Government of Poland; President''s Medal, George Washington University; The Distinguished Person for Advancing Democracy in China, Chinese Education Democracy Foundation; International Campaign for Tibet''s 2005 Light of the Truth Award and Romania''s National Order of "faithful service."

Mr. Gershman was born in New York City on July 20, 1943. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Horace Mann Preparatory School in 1961; received a B.A. degree from Yale University, Magna Cum Laude in 1965 and M.Ed. from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1968.

Mr. Gershman is married to Laurie Pfeffer. They have three children (Sarah, Joseph and Jacob).

The Honorable Mark S. Kirk,
United States House of Representatives

Directors

John Bohn
California Public Utilities Commission

On March 18, 2005, Larry A. Liebenow was elected to the Endowment’s Board of Directors. Liebenow is the president, CEO and director of Quaker Fabric Corporation, one of the world’s largest producers of upholstery fabrics. In 2002, Liebenow was appointed by President Bush to the Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations, which considers trade policy issues in the context of the overall national interest.  Liebenow has served on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Board of Directors since 1996 and held the office of Chairman from 2002-2003. From 1998 until 2003 he served on the Board of Directors of the Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), one of NED’s four core grantees.

Liebenow has contributed his expertise to many other boards and committees, including the Council of the Americas, the Association of American Chambers of Commerce in Latin America, the American Chamber of Commerce of Mexico and the American Textile Manufacturers Institute.

Senator Norm Coleman served for 17 years in Minnesota''s Attorney General''s office before becoming mayor of St. Paul in 1993. During his 10-year tenure as mayor, Coleman oversaw an era of rapid change and economic improvement. In 2002, Coleman ran against incumbent Senator Paul Wellstone, who died tragically in a plane crash just eleven days before the election. He defeated former Vice President Walter Mondale to become senator. Senator Coleman is a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he chairs the Western Hemisphere subcommittee and also serves on the subcommittees for African Affairs, International Operations and Terrorism, and Near Eastern and South Asian Affairs.

Edward McElroy leads one of the fastest-growing labor unions in the United States. McElroy has been involved in the labor movement since 1967, serving as president of the Rhode Island Federation of Teachers, president of the Rhode Island AFL-CIO, and secretary-treasurer of AFT until his election as AFT president in 2004. McElroy also serves on the boards of Working America and the National Labor College.

Christopher Cox is the 28th Chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He was appointed by President Bush on June 2, 2005, and unanimously confirmed by the Senate on July 29, 2005. He was sworn in on August 3, 2005.

During his tenure at the SEC, Chairman Cox has made vigorous enforcement of the securities laws the agency''s top priority, bringing ground breaking cases against a variety of market abuses including hedge fund insider trading, stock options backdating, fraud aimed at senior citizens, municipal securities fraud, and securities scams on the Internet. He has assumed leadership of the international effort to more closely integrate U.S. and overseas regulation in an era of global capital markets and international securities exchanges. He has also championed transforming the SEC''s system of mandated disclosure from a static, form-based approach to one that taps the power of interactive data to give investors qualitatively better information about companies, mutual funds, and investments of all kinds. In addition, as part of an overall focus on the needs of individual investors, Chairman Cox has reinvigorated the agency''s initiative to provide important investor information in plain English.

For 10 of his 17 years in Congress, Chairman Cox served in the Majority Leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives. He was Chairman of the House Policy Committee; Chairman of the Committee on Homeland Security; Chairman of the Select Committee on U.S. National Security; Chairman of the Select Committee on Homeland Security (the predecessor to the permanent House Committee); Chairman of the Task Force on Capital Markets; and Chairman of the Task Force on Budget Process Reform.

In addition, he served in a leadership capacity as a senior Member of every committee with jurisdiction over investor protection and U.S. capital markets, including the House Energy and Commerce Committee (as Vice Chairman of the Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee); the Financial Services Committee; the Government Reform Committee (as Vice Chairman of the full Committee); the Joint Economic Committee; and the Budget Committee.

Among the significant laws he authored were the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act, which protects investors from fraudulent lawsuits, and the Internet Tax Freedom Act, which protects Internet users from multiple and discriminatory taxation. His legislative efforts to eliminate the double tax on shareholder dividends - the subject of a thesis he authored at Harvard University in 1977 - led to the enactment in May 2003 of legislation that cut the double tax by more than half.

Chairman Cox also served as Co-Chairman of the Bipartisan Study Group on Enhancing Multilateral Export Controls, which published a unanimous report in 2001. In 1994 he was appointed by President Clinton to the Bipartisan Commission on Entitlement and Tax Reform, which published its unanimous report in 1995.

From 1986 until 1988, Chairman Cox served in the White House as Senior Associate Counsel to the President. In that capacity, he advised the President on a wide range of matters, including the nomination of three U.S. Supreme Court Justices, reform of the federal budget process, and the 1987 stock market crash.

From 1978 to 1986, he specialized in venture capital and corporate finance with the international law firm of Latham & Watkins, where he was the partner in charge of the Corporate Department in Orange County and a member of the firm''s national management.

In 1982-83, Chairman Cox took a leave of absence from Latham & Watkins to teach federal income tax at Harvard Business School. He also co-founded Context Corporation, publisher of the English translation of the Soviet Union''s daily newspaper, Pravda. In 1977-78, he was law clerk to U.S. Court of Appeals Judge Herbert Choy.

In 1977, Chairman Cox simultaneously received an M.B.A. from Harvard Business School and a J.D. from Harvard Law School, where he was an Editor of the Harvard Law Review. He received a B.A. from the University of Southern California in 1973, graduating magna cum laude after pursuing an accelerated three-year course.

Chairman Cox was born October 16, 1952, in St. Paul, Minnesota. He and his wife Rebecca have three children.

U.S. Representative Gregory W. Meeks represents New York''s 6th Congressional District, which includes the communities of Jamaica and Queens Village. The congressman is a member of the Committee on Financial Services and its Subcommittee on Capital Markets, Insurance, and Government Sponsored Enterprises, as well as the Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit, and the Subcommittee on Domestic Monetary Policy and Technology. Additionally, Representative Meeks serves on the International Relations Committee and its Subcommittee on Africa, and the Subcommittee on East Asia and the Pacific. An active member of the Congressional Black Caucus (CBC), Representative Meeks was voted the CBC Whip in 2001.

Representative Meeks is a member of several civic and professional organizations, including the National Bar Association, the Coalition of 100 Black Men, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, and the National Black Caucus of State Legislators, Inc. He founded the Jesse L. Jackson Independent Democratic Club (renamed the Thurgood Marshall Regular Democratic Club) and remains active in grassroots community organizing.

Prior to being elected to congress, Representative Meeks served as Assistant District Attorney to the Special Narcotics Prosecutor for the City of New York and on the State Investigations Commission and was appointed Judge of the New York State Workers'' Compensation Board.

Rep. Meeks obtained his B.A. from Adelphi University, and a degree from Howard University School of Law.

Rita DiMartino Born and raised in Brooklyn, Rita DiMartino has been active in republican and Hispanic politics for many years. She is currently a member of the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board; before her appointment by President Bush, DiMartino was the Vice President of Congressional Relations for AT&T. Active at all levels of Republican politics, DiMartino has been elected as a Delegate-at-Large to seven Republican National Conventions, served on the 1992 Platform Committee, and was elected Executive Vice-Chair of The New York State Republican Committee in 1988. Currently DiMartino is a member of The Council on Foreign Relations; The City University of New York (CUNY) Board of Trustees; the Hispanic Council on International Relations; the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, and is the Executive Vice Chair of the Board of Bronx Lebanon Hospital.

Kenneth Mehlman is the Managing Director and Head of Global Public Affairs for Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. He was previously a partner at Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld. He served as Chairman of the Republican National Committee from 2005 to 2006 and Campaign Manager of President Bush’s re-election campaign. He also served as Chief of Staff to Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger from 1996 to 1999.

Mehlman is a trustee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Franklin & Marshall College, and the Strong American Schools Foundation. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on the Council of Foreign Relations Climate Change Task Force, the Senior Advisory Committee of Harvard University Institute of Politics, and the executive leadership cabinet of the Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial Foundation.

 
Kenneth Duberstein, the Chairman and CEO of the Duberstein Group, has been familiar with NED from its very beginning in 1983. At that time he was serving in the Reagan Administration as the Assistant to the President for Legislative Affairs when the National Endowment for Democracy Act was being debated by the Congress. Among the Boards of Directors on which Mr. Duberstein serves are: the Boeing Company, Fannie Mae, the Fleming Companies, Inc., and the Council on Foreign Relations. He also serves on a wide range of commissions, task forces, and cultural, educational and volunteer boards.

Esther Dyson has devoted her life to discovering the inevitable and promoting the possible. As an investor/commentator, she focuses on emerging technologies and business models (peer-to-peer, artificial intelligence, the Internet, wireless applications), emerging markets (Eastern Europe) and emerging companies (Cybiko, Sourceree, Trustworks, CV-Online, GreaterTalent.com, Brunswick Direct, Newspaper Direct, IBS, and others you will someday hear of). In 1994, she was one of the first to explore the impact of the Net on intellectual property (among other things, why Bill Gates now plans to offer software as an online service). In 1997, she wrote a book on the impact of the Net on individuals'' lives, Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age.

Dyson is the chairman of EDventure Holdings which publishes the influential monthly computer-industry newsletter, Release 1.0, and sponsors two of the industry''s premier annual conferences, PC (Platforms for Communications) Forum in the US and EDventure''s High-Tech Forum in Europe.

In addition, she donates time and money as a trustee to emerging organizations (the Santa Fe Institute and the Eurasia Foundation). She has just finished a two-year-term as founding chairman of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the international agency charged with setting policy for the Internet''s core infrastructure (technical standards and the Domain Name System) independent of government control.

After graduating from Harvard in economics, Dyson began her serious career in 1974 as a fact-checker for Forbes and quickly rose to reporter. In 1977 she joined New Court Securities as "the research department", following Federal Express and other start-ups. After a stint at Oppenheimer covering software companies, she moved to Rosen Research and in 1983 bought the company from her employer Ben Rosen, and renamed it EDventure Holdings.

The daughter of an English physicist and a Swiss mathematician, Dyson started traveling in Eastern Europe in 1989 and eventually helped to fill the small but vital vacuum at the intersection of Eastern Europe, high-tech and venture capital.

Moiss Na?m is editor and publisher of Foreign Policy. He has written extensively on the political economy of international trade and investment, multilateral organizations, economic reforms, and globalization. He is the author or editor of nine books, numerous essays, professional articles and his opinion columns are regularly published in the world''s leading newspapers.

Dr. Na?m served as Venezuela''s minister of trade and industry and played a central role in the initial launching of major economic reforms in the early 1990s. Prior to his ministerial position, he was professor and dean at Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracin, in Caracas. He was also the director of the projects on economic reforms and on Latin America at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and an Executive Director at the World Bank.

Dr. Na?m holds a Ph.D. and a master''s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Patricia Friend has served seven years as International President of the Association of Flight Attendants (AFA) and is a respected leader in the airline industry and throughout the labor movement. Friend is one of eight women on the 54-member AFL-CIO Executive Council, serves on a number of other AFL-CIO committees, and is on the Board of Trustees for the Council for Adult & Experiential Learning (CAEL).

Michael Novak holds the George Frederick Jewett Chair in Religion and Public Policy at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., where he is Director of Social and Political Studies. Theologian, author and diplomat, Novak has served the U.S. during both Democratic and Republican Administrations. He was Ambassador of the U.S. Delegation to the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva in 1981-1982; and head of the U.S. Delegation to the Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (the monitor of the Helsinki Accords) in 1986.

Francis Fukuyama is Bernard L. Schwartz Professor of International Political Economy at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of Johns Hopkins University, and director of SAIS'' International Development program.

Dr. Fukuyama has written widely on issues relating to questions concerning democratization and international political economy. His book, The End of History and the Last Man, was published by Free Press in 1992 and has appeared in over twenty foreign editions. He is also the author of Trust: The Social Virtues and the Creation of Prosperity (1995), The Great Disruption: Human Nature and the Reconstitution of Social Order (1999), Our Posthuman Future: Consequences of the Biotechnology Revolution (2002), and State-Building: Governance and World Order in the 21st Century, (2004). His most recent book is America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, published by Yale University Press in the spring of 2006.

Francis Fukuyama was born on October 27, 1952, in Chicago. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in classics, and his Ph.D. from Harvard in Political Science. He was a member of the Political Science Department of the RAND Corporation from 1979-1980, then again from 1983-89, and from 1995-96. In 1981-82 and in 1989 he was a member of the Policy Planning Staff of the US Department of State, the first time as a regular member specializing in Middle East affairs, and then as Deputy Director for European political-military affairs. In 1981-82 he was also a member of the US delegation to the Egyptian-Israeli talks on Palestinian autonomy. From 1996-2000 he was Omer L. and Nancy Hirst Professor of Public Policy at the School of Public Policy at George Mason University. He served as a member of the President''s Council on Bioethics from 2001-2004.

Dr. Fukuyama is chairman of the editorial board of a new magazine, The American Interest, which he helped to found in 2005. He holds honorary doctorates from Connecticut College and Doane College, and is a member of advisory boards for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), the Journal of Democracy, and The New America Foundation. As an NED board member, he is responsible for oversight of the Endowment''s Middle East programs. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Global Business Network. He is married to Laura Holmgren and has three children.

Carlos Pascual is Vice President & Director of the Foreign Policy Studies Program (FPS) at the Brookings Institution. Mr. Pascual joined Brookings in 2006 after a 23 year career in the United States Department of State, National Security Council (NSC), and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).

Mr. Pascual directs the FPS program and its centers based on four strategic priorities: relations with world powers, war and peace, countering transnational threats, and reshaping global and U.S. institutions. FPS is the largest research program at Brookings with centers on China, Northeast Asia, the Middle East, and Europe.

In 2007, Mr. Pascual launched a major new initiative at Brookings called "Managing Global Insecurity: American Leadership, International Institutions, and the Search for Peace in the 21st Century." This project will generate substantive materials and international support networks in order to give the next American President and key international partners a platform to launch a new United Nations reform effort in 2009.

Under Mr. Pascual''s leadership, Brookings launched the Iraq Policy Project to assess current U.S. policy on Iraq and alternative options. He has written several opinion pieces and articles on this topic, including: "The Critical Battles: Political Reconciliation and Reconstruction in Iraq" with Ken Pollack in The Washington Quarterly; "A Brokered Peace," in The Washington Post; "Regional Diplomacy Potential" with Michael O''Hanlon in The Washington Times; and "Rights and Wrongs of Fixing Iraq" with Ken Pollack in The Financial Times.

Before joining Brookings, Mr. Pascual served as Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization at the U.S. Department of State, where he led and organized U.S. government planning to help stabilize and reconstruct societies in transition from conflict or civil strife. Prior to that, he was Coordinator for U.S. Assistance to Europe and Eurasia (2003), where he oversaw regional and country assistance strategies to promote market-oriented and democratic states. From October 2000 until August 2003, Mr. Pascual served as U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine. From July 1998 to January 2000, Mr. Pascual served as Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for Russia, Ukraine and Eurasia, and from 1995 to 1998 as Director for the same region. From 1983 to 1995, Mr. Pascual worked for USAID in Sudan, South Africa, and Mozambique and as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia.

Mr. Pascual received his M.P.P. from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University in 1982 and his B.A. from Stanford University in 1980. He serves on the board of directors for the National Endowment for Democracy, Freedom House, and the Internews Network. He is also on the Advisory Group for the United Nations Peacebuilding Fund.

Paul Sarbanes, Maryland’s senior Senator has always been a vocal supporter of the Endowment, speaking out in support of NED countless times on both the Senate Floor and in the Foreign Relations Committee. After serving as a member of the House of Representatives for six years, he was elected to the United States Senate in 1976. Currently, Sarbanes serves as the Ranking Member of the Senate Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, and is a senior member of the Foreign Relations, Budget and Joint Economic Committees.

Economist Judy Shelton was elected to the NED Board of Directors in September, 2005. Shelton specializes in global finance and monetary issues, and has provided expert testimony on numerous occasions before the Joint Economic Committee, Senate Banking, Senate Foreign Relations, House Banking, and House Foreign Affairs committees. She was named as a staff economist for the National Commission on Economic Growth and Tax Reform chaired by Jack Kemp (1995-96).

Shelton has been a member of the board of directors of Empower America, a policy action organization, in addition to the Hilton Hotels Corporation and the Atlantic Coast Airlines Holdings. She is on the advisory council of Best Friends, an organization that promotes a schoolbased program for disadvantaged adolescent girls. Shelton and her husband Gilbert fund college scholarships for Best Friends participants through their private foundation.

As a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, Ambassador Terence Todman served in several positions in the U.S. Department of State including as Assistant Secretary of State for Inter-American Affairs, Ambassador to Argentina. Ambassador to Denmark, Ambassador to Spain, Ambassador to Costa Rica, Ambassador to Guinea, Ambassador to Chad and Charge d''Affaires in Togo. He also served in Tunisia, Lebanon and India. He holds the rank and title of Career Ambassador, the highest in the U.S. Foreign Service.

After retiring from the U.S. Foreign Service, Ambassador Todman was President of Todman & Associates. an international consulting firm. He was also a special advisor to the Governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands and a consultant to various U. S. and Argentine companies. He was on the Accountability Review Board that investigated the terrorist bombings of the U.S embassies in East Africa. He served recently as the OAS Special Envoy to Haiti. He is a fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Council of Foreign Relations.

Before joining the Department of State, Ambassador Todman served in the U.S. Army from 1945 to 1949 as a commissioned officer in Japan. He has been inducted into the Hall of Fame of the U.S. Infantry School at Fort Benning, Georgia.

Ambassador Todman was born in St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. He received his B.A., summa cum laude, from the Inter-American University in Puerto Rico and his M.P. A. from Syracuse University. He holds several honorary doctorate degrees. He was a Trustee of the University of the Virgin Islands and served on various advisory boards at Duke, Georgetown and Syracuse universities.

Dr. Howard Wolpe, a former seven-term Member of Congress and former Presidential Special Envoy to Africa''s Great Lakes Region, is currently Director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and of the Center''s Project on Leadership and Building State Capacity.

A specialist in African politics, for ten of his fourteen years in the Congress Dr. Wolpe chaired the Subcommittee on Africa of the House Foreign Affairs Committee. He also chaired the Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee of the House Science, Space and Technology Committee. His other roles in the Congress included the co-chairmanship of the bipartisan Northeast-Midwest Congressional Coalition and the Congressional Energy and Environmental Study Conference.

Prior to entering the Congress, Dr. Wolpe served in the Michigan House of Representatives and as a member of the Kalamazoo City Commission.

Dr. Wolpe has taught at Western Michigan University (Political Science Department) and the University of Michigan (Institute of Public Policy Studies), and has served as a Visiting Fellow in the Foreign Policy Studies Program of the Brookings Institution, as a Woodrow Wilson Center Public Policy Scholar, and as a consultant to the World Bank and to the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. State Department.

Dr. Wolpe received his B.A. degree from Reed College, and his Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Dr. Wolpe is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), of the Board of Directors of Africare, and of the Advisory Board of Coexistence International. He co-directed (with Ambassador David C. Miller, Jr.) the Ninetieth American Assembly on "Africa and U.S. National Interests" held in March 1997. He has written extensively on Africa, American foreign policy, and the management of ethnic and racial conflict. He is the co-author (with David F. Gordon and David C. Miller, Jr.) of The United States and Africa: A Post-Cold War Perspective (The American Assembly, 1998), and (with David Gordon) of "The Other Africa: an End to Afro-Pessimism," printed in the Spring 1998 volume of the World Policy Journal. He co-edited (with Robert Melson), Nigeria: Modernization and the Politics of Communalism (Michigan State University Press, 1971) and is the author of Urban Politics in Nigeria (University of California Press, 1973), of "The Great Lakes Crisis: An American View," South African Journal of International Affairs, Summer 2000, and a co-author of "Re-building Peace and State Capacity in War-Torn Burundi," The Roundtable: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Vol. 93, No. 375, 457-467, July 2004, a co-author (with Juana Brachet) of "Conflict Sensitive Development Assistance: The Case of Burundi," World Bank Social Development Papers, No. 27, June 2005, and a co-author (with Steve McDonald) of "Training Leaders for Peace," The Journal of Democracy, Vol. 17, No. 1, 126-132, January 2006.

He is the recipient of the African-American Institute''s Star Crystal Award for Excellence, of the Michigan Audubon Society''s Legislator of the Year Award and the Sierra Club''s Lifetime Achievement Award.

Currently, Dr. Wolpe is working on a book based on his diplomatic experience with the Burundi peace process, and is directing post-conflict leadership training programs in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Liberia.

Office of the President

Carl Gershman is President of the National Endowment for Democracy, a private, congressionally supported grant-making institution with the mission to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. In addition to presiding over the Endowment''s grants program in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and Latin America, he has overseen the creation of the quarterly Journal of Democracy, International Forum for Democratic Studies, and the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellows Program. He also took the lead in launching in New Delhi in 1999 the World Movement for Democracy, which is a global network of democracy practitioners and scholars. Mr. Gershman is currently encouraging other democracies to establish their own foundations devoted to the promotion of democratic institutions in the world.

Prior to assuming the position with the Endowment, Mr. Gershman was Senior Counselor to the United States Representative to the United Nations, in which capacity he served as the U.S. Representative to the U.N.''s Third Committee that deals with human rights issues, and also as Alternate Representative of the U.S. to the U.N. Security Council.

While at the U.S. Mission to the U.N., Mr. Gershman also served as lead consultant to the National Bipartisan Commission on Central America, and helped draft the final report.

Prior to his assignment at the United States Mission to the United Nations, Mr. Gershman was a Resident Scholar at Freedom House and Executive Director of Social Democrats, USA.

Mr. Gershman has lectured extensively and written articles and reviews on foreign policy issues for such publications as: Commentary, The New Leader, The New Republic, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The New York Times Magazine, Democratization, The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations, The Washington Quarterly, and the Journal of Democracy. He is the co-editor of Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East (Bantam, 1972) and the author of The Foreign Policy of the American Labor (Sage, 1975). He is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and the Council on Foreign Relations.

He received The Order of the Knight''s Cross, Government of Poland; President''s Medal, George Washington University; The Distinguished Person for Advancing Democracy in China, Chinese Education Democracy Foundation; International Campaign for Tibet''s 2005 Light of the Truth Award and Romania''s National Order of "faithful service."

Mr. Gershman was born in New York City on July 20, 1943. He graduated Magna Cum Laude from Horace Mann Preparatory School in 1961; received a B.A. degree from Yale University, Magna Cum Laude in 1965 and M.Ed. from Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1968.

Mr. Gershman is married to Laurie Pfeffer. They have three children (Sarah, Joseph and Jacob).

Select From Presentation and Remarks (chronological order):022908 - Assembly of the Latin American Network for Democracy012208 - Conference on North Korean Human Rights and Refugees012108 - A Forward Strategy for Democracy Promotion in 2008 and Beyond0801107 - Should the United States Try to Promote Democracy in the Middle East?060807 - Surviving the Democracy Backlash032207 - Todays Threats to Democracy Assistance031407 - Remarks by Carl Gershman at the New York Democracy Forum012907 - Eulogy for Irena Kirkland120706 - Democracy Promotion: Initiatives for Institutional Reform120406 - Democracy Promotion in the Middle East: Time for a Plan B?102106 - The Darkness Spreading Over Russia072706- Human Rights and U.S. Russia Relations: Implications for the Future071106- Toward a Russia of Citizens051706- Backlash against Democracy Assistance: testimony before Senate051706- Assault on Democracy Assistance: challenge to the OSCE051206- Supporting Russian Democracy Over the Long Term050906- Breaking the Information Blockade in North Korea050206- Assault on Democracy Assistance: challenge to Transatlantic Partnership042506- The Assault on Democracy Assistance032206- Taiwans Maturing Democracy120205- Eulogy for Penn Kemble111505- Presentation of the Light of Truth Award100605- Closing Remarks following the address by President George W. Bush082905- Supporting Regime Change: Democratic Assistance or Intervention071905- Introduction of Natan Sharansky060805- Keynote speech for conference on Population Control in China0505- Democracy as Policy Goal and Universal Value052605- European Parliament as a Promoter of Parliamentary Democracy031005- International Cooperation for Promoting Democracy022305- The Future of Democracy in Wider Europe021405- Human Rights of North Koreans061704- Presentation of the Civil Society Vision Award to Vaclav Havel061404- Taiwan Foundation for Democracy Taipei042804- North Korea Freedom Day Rally031704- The Relationship of Political Parties and Civil Society030204- Ending North Korean Totalitarianism: A Crime Against Humanity122703- After the Bombings: My Visit to Turkey and Istanbuls Jewish Community121203- A Democracy Strategy for the Middle East110603- Remarks at Twentieth Anniversary Celebration091203- Why the Developing World Needs and Wants Democracy091003- Democracy in the Middle East: The Critical Challenge080103- Building a Worldwide Movement for Democracy041703- North Koreas Human Catastrophe040703- Introducing "Reading Lolita in Tehran" author, Azar Nafisi032103- Promoting Democracy in the Muslim World030203- Learning from Central Europe: Struggle for Human Rights in North Korea111302- Enlightened post Cold War Initiative for Peace Building & Democracy101102- Promoting Democracy in the Post-9/11 World: Case of North Korea100202- The Challenges After September 11100102- Aiding Democracy Around the World: Challenges After Sept 11050501- The Prospect for China: Democracy or Nationalism?042701- The Internet & Democracy-Building: The NED Experience030501- Promoting Democracy in the Aftermath of Sept 11010701- Making Democracy Work: Accountability & Transparency111700- Remarks at the Congregacao Israelita Paulista100300- Africa’s Role in the World Movement for Democracy033000- The Tasks of the World Democracy Movement092399- Remarks at the Kirkland Memorial Service030499- Testimony Before the House023499- We Should Welcome Taiwans Democratization121498- Civic Education and Democracy: the NED Experience111098- Introduction of His Holiness The Dalai Lama072598- A Polish-Jewish Journey072398- The Struggle for Freedom and Democracy in Cuba051998- Democracy for All?101597- Democracy Foundations: Their Role and Prospect060696- The Political Foundations in the Western Democracies

Art Kaufman
Director,
World Movement for Democracy

Ryota Jonen
Project Manager,
World Movement for Democracy

Zarmina Nashir
Executive Secretary

David E. Lowe is the Vice President for Government and External Relations at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a U.S. foundation that promotes democracy in over ninety countries around the world. In this capacity he heads the President''s Office, which is responsible for outreach to Capitol Hill, as well as the Endowment''s government and media relations, publications, events, and Board-related activities. Lowe also oversees the operation of the World Movement for Democracy, a global initiative that brings together democratic activists from around the world through the Internet and periodic World Assemblies for mutual support and cooperation, and the Center for International Media Assistance, a new initiative that seeks to strengthen U.S. support for independent media abroad. He is also the liaison to NED''s general counsel and to the New York Democracy Forum, a joint project of the Endowment and the Foreign Policy Association.

Lowe joined the Endowment in 1989, having served previously as an official in the national office of the Anti-Defamation League and a member of the political science faculty at Drew University. At Drew, he served as Director of the University''s off-campus programs in Washington and London. While in the latter role, he was a frequent speaker for the U.S. Information Agency in Europe and the United Kingdom.

Lowe holds M.A. and PhD. degrees from Johns Hopkins and a B.A. from Brandeis. He has been an adjunct faculty member at George Washington University''s Graduate School of Political Management and a lecturer on the U.S. Congress for the Graduate School of the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Cecilia Anderson
Assistant Project Manager,
World Movement for Democracy

Cate Urban
Assistant Project Manager,
World Movement for Democracy

Marguerite H. Sullivan
Senior Director,
Center for International Media Assistance

Shannon Maguire
Media Center Coordinator,
Center for International Media Assistance

Spencer Hayne,
Media Center Administrator,
Center for International Media Assistance

Kenneth B. Yancey
Senior Director, Organization Resources

Jane Riley Jacobsen
Director of Public Affairs

Kelly Dougherty
Congressional Liaison

Michael Allen
Special Assistant to the Vice President, Government & External Relations

Trisha Comsti
Publications Coordinator

Suzanne Levine
Web Project Administrator

Beth Davis
Assistant to the President''s Office

Program Staff

Barbara Haig is Vice President for Program, Planning and Evaluation at the National Endowment for Democracy, where she has worked since 1985. The staff which she oversees is responsible for the programmatic development, monitoring and evaluation of the Endowment''s international grants program, which covers six regions of the world. In recent years, she has overseen a vast expansion of the Endowment''s program in the Arab Middle East, especially Iraq, and Afghanistan. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, she oversaw the development and implementation of several large and complex democracy programs funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in South Africa, Nicaragua and Central and Eastern Europe. From 1981 to 1985, Ms. Haig was Special Assistant to the Associate Director of Programs, and then to the Director, of the United States Information Agency. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and has studied or worked in Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa.

Dr. Diuk serves as Senior Director for Europe and Eurasia at the National Endowment for Democracy, a private nonprofit organization funded by the U.S. Congress to strengthen democratic institutions around the world through nongovernmental efforts. She has supervised NED programs in this complex region since 1987, before the East European revolutions, when most democrats could work only underground, through the period of the first free elections of 1989-92, up to the present time of consolidating the transitions in the new independent states of Eurasia as well as assisting those democrats who continue to work in authoritarian countries in that region.

Prior to her appointment at the NED she taught Soviet Politics and Russian History at Oxford University; was a research associate at the Society for Central Asian Studies, England; and editor-in-chief of the London-based publication Soviet Nationality Survey. Her publications include two co-authored books The Hidden Nations: The People Challenge the Soviet Union (New York: William Morrow, 1990) and New Nations Rising: The Fall of the Soviets and the Challenge of Independence (John Wiley & Sons, 1993) and articles in the Washington Post, The Washington Times, Journal of Democracy, Orbis, The World and I, Azerbaijan International, and in the Russian Journal of Public Opinion. She has appeared on CNN International, National Empowerment TV, and Worldnet TV. Her radio interviews have included National Public Radio, BBC, Voice of America, and Radio Liberty. She has been interviewed by Russian radio and is a frequent commentator on Ukraine''s Channel 5 TV. She has given testimony on Capitol Hill before the House International Relations Committee. Her latest research project, "The Next Generation of Young Leaders in Key Post-Soviet States" will soon be published as a book by Rowman & Littlefield.

Dr. Diuk is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a member of the Advisory Board of the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson International Center. She gained a B.A (with honors) in History at the University of Sussex (United Kingdom). Her M.Phil in Russian and East European Studies and D. Phil. in Modern History were gained at St. Antony''s College, University of Oxford.

Rodger Potocki
Director, Europe & Eurasia

Miriam Lanskoy
Senior Program Officer, Central Asia & the Caucasus

John Squier
Senior Program Officer, Russia & Ukraine

Rebekah J. Boone
Program Officer, Eurasia

Ivana Howard
Program Officer, Central & Eastern Europe

Joanna Rohozinska
Program Officer, Europe and Eurasia

Patrick Walsh
Program Assistant, Russia & Ukraine

Bobbie Jo Traut
Program Assistant, Europe & Eurasia

Martha Beard
Program Assistant, Central Asia & the Caucasus

Miriam Kornblith
Director, Latin America & the Caribbean

Fabiola Cordova
Program Officer, Latin America & the Caribbean

Daniela Rudstein
Program Officer, Latin America & the Caribbean

Brandon Yoder
Program Officer, Latin America & the Caribbean

Sophie Miller
Program Assistant, Latin America & the Caribbean

Laith Kubba
Senior Director, Middle East & North Africa

Karen Farrell
Senior Program Officer, Middle East & North Africa

Rahman Aljebouri
Senior Program Officer, Middle East & North Africa

Raja El Habti
Program Officer, Middle East & North Africa

Amira Maaty
Program Officer, Middle East & North Africa

Richard Kraemer
Program Officer, Middle East & North Africa

Anisa Afshar
Assistant Program Officer, Middle East & North Africa

Danny Dedeyan
Assistant Program Officer, Middle East & North Africa

Hanane Zelouani Idrissi
Assistant Program Officer, Middle East & North Africa

Mandana Afshar
Assistant Program Officer, Middle East & North Africa

Amina Afaf Carroll
Program Assistant, Middle East & North Africa

Adam Al-Sarraf
Program Assistant, Middle East & North Africa

Hande Yalnizoglu
Program Assistant, Middle East & North Africa

Myriam Fizazi-Hawkins
Senior Program Coordinator

Justin Snyder
Assistant to the Vice President, Program, Planning & Evaluation

Rebekah Usatin
Program Officer for Monitoring & Evaluation

Lauren Butner
Program Coordinator

Amanda Phaneuf
Program Coordination Assistant

Eileen Wilkie
Program Coordination Assistant

Thomas Akowuah
Program Secretary

Samlanchith Chanthavong
Multi-Regional Global Program Officer

Dave Peterson is the Senior Director of the Africa Program of the National Endowment for Democracy, a privately-incorporated, publicly-funded grant-making organization in Washington, DC. Since 1988, he has been responsible for NED''s program to identify and assist hundreds of African non-governmental organizations and activists working for democracy, human rights, free press, justice and peace. He was formerly executive director of Project South Africa of the A. Philip Randolph Educational Fund, and a freelance journalist in Africa and Turkey. He has a BA from Columbia College and an MA from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism in New York, as well as an MA in African Studies and International Economics from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies in Washington DC. He has visited more than 40 African countries since 1984, and has published numerous articles on African politics.

Eric Robinson
Program Officer, Africa

Joshua Marks
Program Officer, Central Africa

Dominique Dieudonné
Program Officer, Africa

Marissa Bell
Assistant Program Officer, Africa

Neetha Tangirala
Assistant Program Officer, Africa

Oge Okoye
Assistant Program Officer, Africa

Nancy Welch
Program Assistant, Africa

Louisa Coan Greve
Director, East Asia

Brian Joseph
Director, South & Southeast Asia

John Knaus
Senior Program Officer, Asia

Anna Brettell
Program Officer, East Asia

Wilson Lee
Program Officer, South & Southeast Asia

Jiehae Choi
Assistant Program Officer, East Asia

Mona Dave
Assistant Program Officer, South & Southeast Asia

Jessica Gingerich
Assistant Program Officer, South & Southeast Asia

Minyang Jiang
Program Assistant, East Asia

Amanda Wood
Program Assistant, East Asia

Aung Maw Zin
Program Assistant, South & Southeast Asia

Finance Staff 
Joseph Cooper, Jr.
Vice President, Finance & Administration

Kae Guthrie
Director of Administration

Lindlee Frasier
Executive Assistant to the Vice President, Finance & Administration

Darryll Joyner
Office and Payroll Administrator

Wayne Coates
Office Services Supervisor

Mark Fields
Office Services Assistant

Sherman Davis
Office Services Assistant

Kimberly Anderson
Receptionist/Secretary

Lee Correll
Manager, Information Technology

Chris French
Senior Network Engineer

John Maestros
Senior Network Engineer

Shannon Schreiner
Senior Engineer

Keenan Faulkner
Help Desk Assistant
 
Mike Davis
Senior Director, Grants Administration

Nicolette Aftimos
Manager, Grants Administration

Christopher Ragonese
Manager, Grants Administration

Nancy Herzog
Manager, Grants Administration

Frank Conatser
Senior Grants Administrator

Mary Ann Shepherd
Senior Grants Administrator

Carrie Chomuik
Grants Administrator

Katya Forbes
Grants Administrator

Bashar Hilbawi
Grants Administrator

Rula Jamous
Grants Administrator

Rhonda Mays-Buntoro
Grants Administrator

Hamida Shadi
Grants Administrator

Mariama Souare
Grants Administrator

Andriy Yuzvenko
Grants Administrator

Bintou Camara
Grants Administrator

Jamie Gusack
Grants Administrator

Lindsay Gibbs
Grants Administrator

Mary Anne Limoncelli
Grants Assistant

Rena T. Memmedli
Grants Assistant

Reneé Rosser
Grants Assistant

Sabina E. Silkworth is the Director of Accounting at the National Endowment for Democracy. Mrs. Silkworth has been with the Endowment since September 1994. Prior to joining the Endowment, Mrs. Silkworth was the Controller at the American Association of Community Colleges and prior to that spent 7 years in government contracting. Mrs. Silkworth directs all accounting operations including all financial reporting and monitoring. She has implemented policies and procedures, ensured compliance with tax laws and regulations and managed the Endowment''s annual external audit. Since her arrival, the Endowment has received clean opinions on A-133 audits and audits conducted by the Department of State''s Office of Inspector General. A Washington, DC native, Mrs. Silkworth graduated Magna Cum Laude from the Catholic University of America with a B.A. in Financial Management and Summa Cum Laude from George Washington University with a Master of Accountancy. She is married and has four kids and resides in Maryland.

Pat Dempsey
Senior Accountant

Pat Owens
Accounting Administrator

Ebony Smart
Accounting Assistant

Keith Burton
Director of Auditing

Chibuzo Ogbonna
Manager of Auditing

Silvia F. Vest
Senior Auditor

Adel Mawla
Senior Auditor

Elena Bernstein
Auditor

Java Dorjsuren
Auditor

Karell Adou
Auditor

Theresa Shegog
Audit Associate

Donna de Guzman
Audit Assistant

International Forum for Democratic Studies

Marc F. Plattner is coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, vice-president for research and studies at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), and codirector of the International Forum for Democratic Studies.

He served as NED''s director of program from 1984 to 1989. During the 2002–2003 academic year he was a visiting professor at the Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy. He has previously been a Fellow at the National Humanities Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (1983–84); Advisor on Economic and Social Affairs at the United States Mission to the United Nations (1981–83); program officer at the Century Foundation (formerly the Twentieth Century Fund), a private foundation in New York City (1975–81); and managing editor of The Public Interest, a quarterly journal on public policy (1971–75).

Dr. Plattner graduated summa cum laude from Yale University and received his Ph.D. in government from Cornell University, where his principal area of study was political philosophy.

He is the author of Rousseau''s State of Nature (1979), a study of the political thought of Jean Jacques Rousseau, and the editor of Human Rights in Our Time (1984). Over the past decade, he has coedited more than a dozen books on contemporary issues relating to democracy: World Religions and Democracy (2005); Islam and Democracy in the Middle East (2003); Democracy After Communism (2002); The Global Divergence of Democracies (2001); Globalization, Power, and Democracy (2000); The Liberal Tradition in Focus: Problems and New Perspectives (2000); The Democratic Invention (2000); Democracy in Africa (1999); The Self-Restraining State: Power and Accountability in New Democracies (1999); Democracy in East Asia (1998); Consolidating the Third Wave Democracies, Vol. 1: Themes and Perspectives, Vol. 2: Regional Challenges (1997); Civil-Military Relations and Democracy (1996); Economic Reform and Democracy (1995); Nationalism, Ethnic Conflict and Democracy (1994); Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Revisited (1993); and The Global Resurgence of Democracy (1993; 2nd Edition, 1996). His articles on a wide range of international and public policy issues have appeared in numerous books and journals.

Larry Diamond is a coeditor of the Journal of Democracy, codirector of the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy, and a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

At Stanford University he is a professor by courtesy of political science and sociology and coordinates the democracy program of the new Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law. During 2002–3, he served as a consultant to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and was a contributing author of its report Foreign Aid in the National Interest. Currently he serves as a member of USAID''s Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. He has also advised and lectured to the World Bank, the United Nations, the State Department, and other governmental and nongovernmental agencies dealing with governance and development.

During the first three months of 2004, Diamond served as a senior adviser on governance to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Baghdad. He is now lecturing and writing about the challenges of postconflict state-building in Iraq. Diamond has also worked with a group of Europeans and Americans to produce the Transatlantic Strategy for Democracy and Human Development in the Broader Middle East, published in 2004 by the German Marshall Fund of the United States. During 2004–5, he has been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations'' Independent Task Force on United States Policy Toward Arab Reform.

Diamond has lectured, taught, and conducted research in some 25 countries over the past thirty years. During 1982–83 he was a Fulbright Visiting Lecturer at Bayero University in Kano, Nigeria. In 1997–98 he was a visiting scholar at the Sun Yat-Sen Institute of the Academia Sinica in Taipei, Taiwan. His research and policy analysis are focused on the relationship between democracy, governance, and development in poor countries, particularly in Africa.

Diamond is the author of Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq (Times Books, 2005); Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation, Promoting Democracy in the 1990s; and Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria. His recent edited books include Islam and Democracy in the Middle East (with Marc F. Plattner and Daniel Brumberg); Political Parties and Democracy (with Richard Gunther); The Global Resurgence of Democracy; and The Global Divergence of Democracies (with Marc F. Plattner). Among his other 20 edited books is the series Democracy in Developing Countries, with Juan Linz and Seymour Martin Lipset.

Jessica Martin
Program Assistant, Fellowship Programs

Melissa Aten
Research & Conferences Officer, International Forum

Phil Costopoulos
Executive Editor, Journal of Democracy

Brent Kallmer
Managing Editor, Journal of Democracy

Guy Allen Overland
Director, Democracy Resource Center

Ginger Richards
Senior Electronic Resources Librarian

Tim Myers
Librarian

Anna Yevropina
Librarian/Archivist

Alek Potrzebowski
Library Assistant

Diego Abente
Deputy Director, International Forum

Marta Kalabinski
Assistant to the Vice President, Research & Studies
Assistant Editor, Journal of Democracy

Maria Angelica Fleetwood
Senior Forum Administrator

Tracy Brown
Associate Editor, Journal of Democracy

Sally Blair [more...]
Director, Fellowship Programs

Zerxes Spencer
Manager, Fellowship Programs
Associate Editor, Journal of Democracy