French/United States Cooperation on the Promotion of Democracy in Africa
Human Rights, Democracy, and Good Governance
Donor Strategies to Assist Democratization
Ayo Sadikou Alao is the Founder and President of gerddes-Afrique, an influential network for good governance in Africa with headquarters in Cotonou, Benin.
Salih Booker is the Director of the Africa Studies Program at the Council on Foreign Relations in the U.S. and a frequent commentator on foreign policy issues.
Albert Bourgi is the editor of Jeune Afrique in Paris.
John Carson is the U.S. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs. He has served as Ambassador to Zimbabwe and Uganda, as Deputy Chief of Mission to Botswana, and as Staff Director for the Subcommittee on Africa, U.S. House of Representatives.
Herman Cohen is the Senior Advisor for External Affairs of the Global Coalition for Africa and former Assistant Secretary for Africa, U.S. State Department.
Gérard Conac is Visiting Fellow at the International Forum for Democratic Studies of the National Endowment for Democracy and former Professor at the Université de Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne).
Learned Dees is Program Officer for Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy.
Christine Desouches is the Déléguée Générale à la Coopération Juridique et Judiciaire at the Agence de la Francophonie.
Paula Dobriansky is the Vice President and Director of the Washington Office of the Council on Foreign Relations, and serves as Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the National Endowment for Democracy.
Robert Dossou is the former Foreign Minister of Benin.
Jean-Claude Faure is the Directeur de Cabinet de Monsieur le Ministre de la Coopération et de la Francophonie. He served previously as Directeur du Developpement at the French Ministry of Cooperation and as Senior Advisor to the Global Coalition for Africa.
Christopher Fomunyoh is the Director for West Africa at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs in Washington, D.C.
Djovi Gally is the former Ministre des Droits de l’Homme et de la Réhabilitation of Togo and President of the Observatoire Panafricain de la Démocratie.
Carl Gershman is the President of the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington, D.C. Former Senior Counselor to the United States Representative to the United Nations, since 1984 he has presided over the development of the Endowment’s worldwide grants program, its quarterly Journal of Democracy, and its International Forum for Democratic Studies.
Amo Houghton is a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (R-N.Y.).
Jesse Jackson is Special Envoy for Promotion of Democracy in Africa, U.S. Department of State, President of the Rainbow/push Coalition, and U.S. Presidential Candidate.
Guy Labertit is Director for Africa at the Fondation Jean-Jaurès in France and author of the 1997 Africa policy statement for the French Socialist Party.
Jacques Legendre is a Member of the French Senate and Secrétaire Général de l’Association des Parlementaires de Langue Française.
Gay McDougall is the Executive Director of the International Human Rights Law Group in Washington, D.C.
Didier Maus is Director of the Institut International d’Administration Publique in France, founder of the Revue française de droit constitutionnel, and Vice-President of the Association Française des Constitutionnalistes.
Celestin Monga is the Country Economist for Burkina Faso at the World Bank.
Abdul Oroh is the Director of the Civil Liberties Organisation of Nigeria.
Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah is the Executive Secretary of the Global Coalition for Africa, former Special Representative for Burundi of the United Nations Secretary General and the United Nations Special Coordinator for Africa and the Least Developed Countries, and a cofounder of Transparency International.
Donald Payne is a Member of the U.S. House of Representatives (D-N.J.), and serves on the National Endowment for Democracy Board of Directors.
Dave Peterson is Senior Program Officer for Africa at the National Endowment for Democracy.
René Degni Segui is former President of the Ligue Ivoirienne des Droits de l’Homme in Côte d’Ivoire and former u.n. Special Rapporteur on Rwanda.
Amadou Toumani Touré is the former President of Mali and led Mali’s 1992 transition to democratic civilian rule.
Jennifer Windsor is Deputy Director of the Center for Democracy and Governance of the U.S. Agency for International Development.
William Zartman is the Director of the African Studies and Conflict Management Programs, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University.