May 5, 2004

Speaker biographies

Mark M. Brown is the administrator of the United Nations Development Program. He is also the chair of the United Nations Development Group, a committee consisting of the heads of all UN funds, programs, and departments working on development issues. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. Brown was the vice president for external affairs and United Nations affairs at the World Bank. From 1986 to 1994, he was a lead partner in an international consulting firm, where he advised governments, political leaders, and corporations. As the founder of the Economist Development Report, he served as its editor from 1983 to 1986 after working as a political correspondent with The Economist magazine from 1977 to 1979.

Larry Diamond is a senior fellow at the Hoover Institute. He is also a professor of political science and sociology and the coordinator of the democracy program at the new Center for Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law at Stanford's Institute for International Studies. Since 1990, Mr. Diamond has been the coeditor of the Journal of Democracy. He is the author of Developing Democracy: Toward Consolidation; Promoting Democracy in the 1990s: Actors and Instruments, Issues and Imperatives; and Class, Ethnicity, and Democracy in Nigeria: The Failure of the First Republic. He is also the lead editor of the series of volumes Democracy in Developing Countries.

Joshua Muravchik is a resident scholar at AEI and a specialist in U.S. foreign policy and international relations. He has written extensively about democracy, human rights, the role of ideas and ideologies in international politics, and America's role in the post-Cold War world. His articles appear frequently in Commentary, The New Republic, the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Wall Street Journal. His newest book, Covering the Intifada: How the Media Reported the Palestinian Uprising, was published in July 2003. He is also the author of Heaven on Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism (2002); The Imperative of American Leadership (1996); News Coverage of the Sandinista Revolution (1988); and The Uncertain Crusade: Jimmy Carter and the Dilemmas of Human Rights Policy (1986). He serves as an adjunct scholar at the Washington Institute on Near East Policy and is an adjunct professor at the Institute of World Politics.

W. Robert Pearson is the director-general of the Foreign Service and director of human resources at the U.S. Department of State. From September 2000 to July 2003, he was the U.S. ambassador to Turkey. Ambassador Pearson was deputy chief of mission of the U.S. embassy to France from July 1997 to July 2000. He served twice at NATO, from 1993 to 1997 as deputy permanent representative to the U.S. mission during the Balkan crisis and NATO's enlargement, and from 1987 to 1990 on the international staff as chair of NATO's Political Committee. From 1987 to 1990, he was the executive secretary of the Department of State.

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