Council for a Community of Democracies

CCD Board of Directors
Robert Hunter, Chairman Richard C. Rowson, Vice President Jack W. Buechner, Secretary Arthur W. Spengler, Treasurer Amelia Augustus Pauline H. Baker Herman J. Cohen Joel Cowan Jonathan Davidson Dieter Dettke Larry Diamond Paula Dobriansky April Foley Jeffrey Gedmin Morton Halperin Charles Heck Dennis M. Hertel Amory Houghton Jr.	Greg Hunter Christopher Jones Richard Joseph Hon. David Kilgour Jeremy Kinsman Andrew Koval Robert R. LaGamma Mark P. Lagon Theresa Loar Henry Nau James D. McGee Robert A. Pastor James N. Purcell, Jr. Vi Raymond John Sewell Steven E. Steiner Janice Trey Johnny Young

Senior Advisors		CCD Founders
Peter Ackerman William E. Brock III Frank C. Carlucci Hodding Carter III Sándor Demján John C. Whitehead		Albert Hamilton James R. Huntley Richard C. Olson Mark Palmer Walter Raymond John Richardson, President Emeritus

CCD Staff Members
	Robert R. LaGamma, President Robert LaGamma served for 36 years in the Foreign Service of the United States Information Agency prior to his retirement. During that time he directed USIS offices in South Africa, Nigeria, Senegal, Togo and Florence, Italy and was Director of USIA’s Office of African Affairs. He designed U.S. Government democracy initiatives for both Nigeria and South Africa that were funded by USAID. In addition, he organized the first White House Conference on Africa in 1995 and USIA’s Atlanta Conference on South Africa, Investing in People, in 1994. Prior to his final tour in South Africa he was responsible for organizing a major conference for Africa on civic education, CIVITAS. He is a recipient of USIA’s highest award, the Edward R. Murrow award for excellence in public diplomacy. Since his retirement he has been a senior fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy, managed he Carter Center’s election monitoring project in Nigeria, was a consultant for the National Democratic Institute in the Congo and was an Inspector with the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State, participating on the team that inspected the American Embassy in Cairo, Egypt.
	Chris Brandt, Program Coordinator brandt@ccd21.org Chris Brandt received his MA in International Relations from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, where he focused his research on democratization and governance in Africa. Prior to his arrival at CCD, Chris served as a long-term election observer in Liberia with the Carter Center, and worked as a Program Officer with the Alliance for Credible Elections, a Nigerian NGO dedicated to election reform and good governance.
	Rebecca Aaberg, Program Officer aaberg@ccd21.org Rebecca Aaberg graduated in May 2012 with an M.A. from the Latin American Studies Program at Georgetown University. In graduate school, she concentrated in government and focused on human rights. She is also interested in the applicability of the lessons from Latin American democratization to other regions. Rebecca received her B.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, where she wrote her senior thesis about police violence and re-democratization in Argentina and Uruguay. She speaks Spanish and reads Portuguese.
	Ryan Mulvenna, CCD Intern Ryan Mulvenna is a graduate student at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University, where she is pursuing an M.A. in International Affairs with a concentration in conflict resolution. She is particularly interested in the role of democratization in resolving conflict situations and human rights abuses. Ryan received her B.A. from Southern Methodist University, where she majored in History and Political Science and minored in International Studies and Spanish.
	Adam Matheny, CCD Intern Adam Matheny is a graduate student at the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University where he is pursuing an M.A. in International Affairs with a concentration in international law and organizations. His main interests are international organizations in general and their possible ability to help states cooperate and overcome collective action problems in particular. Adam received his B.Sc. in political science with a minor in philosophy from Lund University in Sweden. He wrote his senior theses on the ethics of climate change and on the concept of uncertainty in International Relations.