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Robert A. Pastor
Robert Pastor is the Director of the Center for Democracy and Election
Management and Vice President of International Affairs at American
University. Before coming to American, Pastor was Professor of Political
Science at Emory University, and from 1985 until 1998, he was 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 developed the technique of "election mediation"
and
organized the observation of more than 30 elections throughout the
world. Pastor was the Senior Advisor to the Carter-Ford National Commission
on Election Reform and also former President Carter’s personal
representative to the Commission. A member of the Governing Board of
Common Cause, he chaired their Task Force on Election Reform. He was
a Peace Corps Volunteer, a Fulbright Professor in Mexico, and the initiator
of the Humphrey Fellowship Program when he was National Security Advisor
on Latin American Affairs from 1977-81. He received his M.P.A. from
the John F. Kennedy School of Government and his Ph.D. in Political
Science from Harvard University and is the author or editor of 16 books
on U.S. foreign policy, democratization, and North America.
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