Georges A. Fauriol

Georges A. Fauriol joined the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) in February 2010 as vice president for planning, grants management, compliance, and evaluation. He was previously at the International Republican Institute (IRI), where he served as senior vice president, vice president for strategic planning, as well as acting president in summer 2004. Prior to joining IRI in October 2001, Fauriol was senior fellow and director of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he was the senior scholar specializing in Western Hemisphere issues—the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America, and Canada. Previously, Fauriol worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the U.S. Information Agency, and the Inter-American Development Bank. Fauriol is the author or coauthor of several books and more than 50 publications and has testified before congressional committees frequently. He received his master’s and his doctorate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University.