Georges Fauriol

Vice President Programs －Planning, Grants Management, Compliance, and Evaluation

Georges A. Fauriol joins NED from the International Republican Institute (IRI), where he most recently served as Senior Vice President.  He also served as IRI’s Vice President of Strategic Planning, and was Acting President in summer 2004. Prior to joining IRI in October 2001, Fauriol served as Director and Senior Fellow of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies where he was the senior scholar specializing in Western Hemisphere issues – the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America, and Canada.  Previously, Fauriol worked with 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.  He received his master’s and his doctorate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University.