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Reed Slack serves as the resident director in Nigeria for the National Democratic Institute, overseeing NDI's work with election observation and citizen participation in government. He has also served as NDI’s senior program manager for political parties in Zambia and implemented a program to facilitate and support efforts of the political parties to recruit, train and deploy polling agents for the Zambia 2011 elections.
Prior to joining NDI, Mr. Slack was executive director of The Utah Health and Human Rights Project (UHHR), a NGO dedicated to helping survivors of torture, war trauma, human trafficking and other violent crimes regain dignified and productive lives. He served for three years as chief of party in Nigeria for the American Bar Association Rule of Law Initiative (ABA-ROLI) where he implemented an anti-trafficking in persons program. A program that supported law enforcement agencies and civil society organizations to detect, investigate and prosecute trafficking cases as well as help support rescued victims of trafficking.
Mr. Slack has worked extensively on the African continent; he worked as senior legislative advisor for NDI to help build the capacity of the House of Representatives of the Nigeria National Assembly, and directed a regional anti-corruption program in East Africa for ABA–ROLI. His work included capacity building with anti-corruption agencies and civil society organizations in Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania and Zambia.
Prior to his work in Africa Mr. Slack served as counsel to the Ethics Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives, there he assisted the government of Mongolia in revising its anti-corruption statutes.
Mr. Slack was born in Hurricane, Utah. He is a graduate of Brigham Young University (B.A. 1988) and the Georgetown University Law Center (J.D. 1993).
