Council for a Community of Democracies

CCD Board of Directors
Robert Hunter, Chairman Richard C. Rowson, Vice President Mark Palmer, Vice President Jack W. Buechner, Secretary John W. Lentz, Treasurer Carol C. Adelman 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.	Christopher Jones Richard Joseph Hon. David Kilgour Jeremy Kinsman Robert R. LaGamma Mark P. Lagon Theresa Loar Henry Nau James D. McGee Robert A. Pastor Daniel Puls James N. Purcell, Jr. Vi Raymond John Sewell Arthur W. Spengler Steven E. Steiner Janice Trey Johnny Young Stanley Zuckerman Lynne K. Zusman

Senior Advisors		CCD Founders
Peter Ackerman John Brademas William E. Brock III Frank C. Carlucci Hodding Carter III Sándor Demján Max M. Kampelman John C. Whitehead		Albert Hamilton James R. Huntley Richard C. Olson 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, CCD Intern Rebecca Aaberg is a graduate student in the Latin American Studies Program at Georgetown University. 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. At Georgetown, her graduate program concentration is government, and she has focused on human rights. She is also interested in the applicability of the lessons from Latin American democratization to other regions. Rebecca is proficient in Spanish and reads Portuguese. Garrett Nada, CCD Intern Garrett Nada is a graduate student at the George Washington University, pursuing a Master's degree in Middle East Studies with a concentration in Conflict and Conflict Resolution. He previously graduated with a B.A. in Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies from Brandeis University in 2010. Garrett has studied abroad in Israel and the West Bank and has advanced Hebrew and Arabic language skills. He previously interned at Partners for Democratic Change, the Sharek Youth Forum (Ramallah), the US Senate and the Brookings Institution.
	Lynne Zusman, General Counsel