Joel Barkan/Definition

Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies and professor emeritus of political science, University of Iowa, specializing in issues of democratization and governance across Anglophone Africa; first regional democracy and governance adviser for eastern and southern Africa at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), (1992-1994); UN Development Program; National Democratic Institute; World Bank; visiting fellow at U.S. Institute of Peace (1997–1998), Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2001–2002), University of Cape Town (2004, 2005, and 2007), and National Endowment for Democracy (2000 and 2005–2006)