Georges Fauriol is a senior advisor with the Latin America program at USIP.

He is also a senior associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS); a fellow with the Caribbean Policy Consortium; and a Think Tank Haiti Steering Group member as part of a partnership of Université Quisqueya in Haiti and the Inter-American Dialogue. He previously taught in Georgetown University’s democracy and governance graduate program.

Fauriol retired in 2020 as vice president for grants, operations and evaluation at the National Endowment for Democracy. He also served as vice president of strategic planning and as senior vice president at the International Republican Institute. Prior to that, Fauriol held a number of positions at CSIS, notably as director and senior fellow of the Americas program and as the assistant to the chairman of CSIS’s Board of Trustees. Fauriol also worked at the Foreign Policy Research Institute in Philadelphia.

He has extensive cross-regional democracy assistance experience, including missions in Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, Africa, Asia, the Caribbean and Central America. He is widely published and has testified several times before U.S. congressional committees.

He holds a doctorate in international relations from the University of Pennsylvania.