Frederick D. Barton

Frederick Barton is a senior adviser in the CSIS International Security Program and codirector of its Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project. He is currently on the World Economic Forum’s Global Agenda Council on Humanitarian Assistance, was a member of the Presidential Transition Agency Review Team on Development Assistance, and was the chair of the Obama for President Subgroup on Post-Conflict Reconstruction. He was also a member of the CSIS Commission on Smart Power, cochair of a the Working Group on Stabilization and Reconstruction at the U.S. Institute of Peace, cochair of the Working Group on Reconstruction and Development at the Princeton Project on National Security, and an expert adviser to the Iraq Study Group and the Task Force on the United Nations. An active contributor to public discussions through the press, panels, and speeches, and at congressional and international hearings, Barton was also a visiting lecturer at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University for five years, where he was the Frederick H. Schultz Professor of Economic Policy and lecturer on public and international affairs. His work is informed by 12 years of experience in nearly 30 global hot spots, including serving as UN deputy high commissioner for refugees in Geneva (1999–2001) and as the first director of the Office of Transition Initiatives at the U.S. Agency for International Development (1994–1999). A graduate of Harvard College (1971), Barton earned his M.B.A. from Boston University (1982), with an emphasis on public management, and received an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Wheaton College of Massachusetts (2001).