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This guide offers links and background information on the Institute’s senior staff, including department heads and office directors. To reach these and other people working at the Institute, use our contact form or dial our main telephone number: 1-202-728-5500.
Washington-based Staff
Kenneth Wollack
President
Shari K. Bryan
Vice President
Aaron Azelton
Director
Citizen Participation Programs
Robert Benjamin
Senior Associate and Regional Director
Central and Eastern Europe Programs
Leslie Campbell
Senior Associate and Regional Director
Middle East and North Africa Programs
Ivan Doherty
Senior Associate and Director
Political Party Programs
Christopher Fomunyoh
Senior Associate and Regional Director
Central and West Africa Programs
Kathy Gest
Director
Public Affairs
Joe Gleason
Director
Global Security and Operations
K. Scott Hubli
Director
Governance Programs
Robert Hurd
Director
Program Development
Keith Jennings
Senior Associate and Regional Director
Southern and East Africa Programs
Laura Jewett
Regional Director
Eurasia Programs
Peter Manikas
Senior Associate and Regional Director
Asia Programs
Susan Markham
Director
Women's Political Participation
Mary Markowicz
Director
Program Coordination
Patrick Merloe
Senior Associate and Director
Election Programs
John M. Palien
Director
Human Resources
Sander Schultz
Chief Financial Officer
Finance
Hernani Snyder
Director
Office Administration
Chris Spence
Chief Technology Officer
Technology
Jim Swigert
Senior Associate and Regional Director
Latin America and Caribbean Programs
International-based Senior Country Representatives
Asia
Afghanistan
Hatem Bamehriz
Bangladesh
Jacqueline Corcoran
Burma
Stephanie Lynn
Based in Indonesia
Cambodia
Laura Thornton
Indonesia
Paul Rowland
Malaysia
Stephanie Lynn
Based in Indonesia
Nepal
Mark Wallem
Pakistan
Sandra Houston
Thailand
Deborah Healy
Central and Eastern Europe
Bosnia
Nenad Simovic
Bulgaria
Denitsa Sacheva
Kosovo
Laura Nichols
Macedonia
Chris Henshaw
Romania
Alice Ratyis
Serbia
Tom Kelly
Slovakia
Zuzana Dzurikova
Eurasia
Armenia
Gegham Sargsyan
Azerbaijan
Alex Grigorievs
Belarus
Michael Murphy
Based in Lithuania
Georgia
Luis Navarro
Kazakhstan
Amy Schultz
Kyrgyzstan
Scott Kearin
Moldova
Andrew Young
Russia
Reid Nelson
Turkey
Dilek Ertukel
Ukraine
Kristina Wilfore
Uzbekistan
Clark Plexico
Latin America and the Caribbean
Colombia
Francisco Herrero
Ecuador
Sandy Quimbaya
Guatemala
Eduardo Nuñez
Haiti
Ricardo Valverde
Honduras
Salvador Romero
Mexico
Julian Quibell
Nicaragua
Félix Ulloa
Peru
Victor Rojas
Middle East and North Africa
Egypt
Julie Hughes
Gulf Regional Programs
Patricia Davis
Iraq
Lisa McLean
Jordan
Niti Shehu
Lebanon
Samantha Smoot
Mauritania
Jacques Veilleux
Morocco
Jeffrey England
Tunisia
Nicole Rowsell
West Bank/Gaza
Francesca Binda
Yemen
Heather Therrien
Sub-Saharan Africa
Angola
Isabel Emerson
Burkina Faso
Aminata Kassé
Central African Republic
Serge Houndolo
Côte d’Ivoire
Charles Djrekpo
Democratic Republic of Congo
Anita Vandenbeld
Guinea
Arsène T. Gbaguidi
Kenya
Mary O’Hagan
Liberia
Aubrey McCutcheon
Malawi
Antoinette Pearson
Mali
Raphael Ouattara
Nigeria
Carlo Binda
Somalia
Mohamed Abdirizak
Based in Kenya
South Africa
Xoliswa Sibeko
South Sudan
Richard Nuccio
Sudan
Ans Zwerver
Togo
Badié Hima
Uganda
Heather Kashner
Zambia
Kelley Jones
Zimbabwe
Imani Countess
