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FACULTY BIOGRAPHIES -- Robert Pastor
Robert Pastor
Ph.D. Harvard University
M.P.A. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University
B.A. Lafayette College
E-mail: rpastor@american.edu
Phone : 202-885-2728
Curriculum Vitae
Robert Pastor has been the Vice President of International Affairs and
a Professor of International Relations at American University since September,
2002. In this position, Dr. Pastor leads AU's expanding international
programs and activities, including the management of AU's partnership
with ABTI-American University of Nigeria. Dr. Pastor established and directs
two Centers for research, teaching and policy: the Center for Democracy
and Election Management and the Center for North American Studies. In
addition, Dr. Pastor is the Executive Director of the Commission on Federal
Election Reform, co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James A Baker, III.
From 1985 until he arrived at American, Dr. Pastor was Professor of Political Science at Emory University and a Fellow and Founding Director of the Carter Center's Latin American and Caribbean Program and the Democracy and China Election Projects. At The Carter Center, he founded and served as the Executive Secretary of the Council of Freely-Elected Heads of Government, a group of 32 leaders of the Americas, chaired by former US President Jimmy Carter. From 1977-81, he was Director of Latin American and Caribbean Affairs on the National Security Council. He was the Senior Advisor to the Carter-Nunn-Powell mission to Haiti and was nominated by President Clinton to be Ambassador to Panama in 1993. A Peace Corps volunteer in Malaysia, a Fulbright Professor in Mexico, the Straus Visiting Professor at Harvard University and the creator of the Humphrey Fellows Program, Dr. Pastor is author or editor of 16 books, including Toward a North American Community; Exiting the Whirlpool: U.S. Foreign Policy toward Latin America; and A Century’s Journey: How the Great Powers Shape the World.
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