Georges A. Fauriol

Georges A. Fauriol is a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); a fellow with the Caribbean Policy Consortium (CPC); and a member of the Think Tank Haiti (TTH) Steering Group, a partnership of Université Quisqueya in Haiti and the Inter-American Dialogue. He is also a senior advisor with the United States Institute of Peace (USIP). He previously taught in Georgetown University’s democracy and governance graduate program. Dr. Fauriol retired in 2020 as vice president of grants, operations, and evaluation at the National Endowment for Democracy (NED) and also served from 2001 to 2010 as vice president of strategic planning, and senior vice president, at one of NED’s implementing institutes, the International Republican Institute.

Prior, Dr. Fauriol held a number of positions at CSIS, notably as director and senior fellow of the Americas Program. He previously was also the assistant to the chairman of the Center’s board of trustees. Fauriol also worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia. He has extensive cross-regional democracy assistance experience, including missions in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean, and Central America. He is widely published and has testified several times before U.S. congressional committees. He holds a PhD in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania.