Jon Temin is the vice president of policy and programs for the Truman National Security Project and Truman Center for National Policy. Previously, he served as the director of the Africa Program at Freedom House, overseeing the organization’s efforts to advance democracy and human rights across the continent. From 2014 to 2017, he was a member of the U.S. Department of State’s Policy Planning Staff, providing strategic guidance and long-term thinking to the secretary of state. Mr. Temin also served as director of the U.S. Institute of Peace’s Africa Program, leading the institute’s efforts to help end conflicts and prevent new violence. He has written for the New York Times, Washington Post, Financial Times, Foreign Affairs, and Foreign Policy, and he has testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and House Foreign Affairs Committee. Previously, he was a Fulbright fellow in Ghana, visiting fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, and term member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
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It’s Time for a U.S.-Africa Cities Summit
Commentary by Jon Temin — December 12, 2022
The Perilous State of Freedom and Democracy in Africa
Event — April 8, 2021
What to Watch in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2021
Commentary by Yemi Adamolekun, Lina Benabdallah, and Will Brown, Maria E. Burnett, Emilia Columbo, Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Hilary Matfess, Rafiq Raji, Jon Temin, Laird Treiber, Judd Devermont, Marielle Harris, Kyle Murphy — January 12, 2021
What to Watch in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2020
Commentary by William Mark Bellamy, Emilia Columbo, Mvemba Phezo Dizolele, Jon Temin, Judd Devermont, Marielle Harris, and Richard Downie — January 10, 2020
Africa’s Democratic Moment?
Commentary by Jon Temin and Judd Devermont — June 17, 2019