Georges Fauriol joined the International Republican Institute (IRI) in October 2001. He currently serves as senior vice president with particular responsibilities for strategic planning, program development, and evaluation. He has also served as vice president of strategic planning and as acting president (summer 2004). Before joining the staff of IRI, Fauriol participated in many IRI assessment missions, training workshops, and election observations beginning in the late 1980s. Prior to IRI, Fauriol served as director and senior fellow of the CSIS Americas Program, where he was the senior scholar specializing in Western Hemisphere issues-the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America, and Canada. Additionally, Fauriol served as chair of the Mexico Seminar Course at the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Service Institute from 1992 to 2000. He cochairs the Americas Forum, a Washington, D.C., network of hemispheric policy professionals. Earlier, he worked with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the U.S. Information Agency, and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is a board member of the Florida Association of Voluntary Agencies for Caribbean Action, a research council member of the Center for a Free Cuba, and has served as an adjunct senior research associate at the University of Miami's North-South Center. He has testified before Senate and House subcommittees 18 times. Fauriol lectures before university audiences, U.S. service academies, local civic groups, and participates actively in Washington, D.C., think tank community discussions. He is the author or coauthor of more than 50 publications, including The Cuban Revolution (Westview, 1984), Guatemala's Political Puzzle (Transaction, 1988), The Third Century: U.S.-Latin American Policy Choices in the 1990s (CSIS, 1988), Cuba, The International Dimension (Transaction, 1990), Haitian Frustrations (CSIS, 1995), Fast Forward: Latin America on the Edge of the Twenty-first Century (Transaction, 1997), and Thinking Strategically about 2005: The United States and South America (CSIS, 1999). His articles have appeared in such periodicals as the Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, Baltimore Sun, Christian Science Monitor, Orbis, and Foreign Affairs. The son of a foreign service officer, Fauriol was born in France, grew up in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States (Chicago, Ill.). He received his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.A. from Ohio University.
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