The Solidarity Center is a non-profit organization aligned with the AFL-CIO labor federation. It is one of the core grantees of the National Endowment for Democracy.
Robie Marcus Hooker "Mark" Palmer was a United States diplomat, who served as United States Ambassador to Hungary (1986–90). He was a member of the American Academy of Diplomacy and the Committee on the Present Danger, Vice Chairman of Freedom House and the Council for a Community of Democracies. He was also the co-founder of the National Endowment for Democracy.
The National Democratic Institute (NDI), or National Democratic Institute for International Affairs, is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that works with partners in developing countries to increase the effectiveness of democratic institutions. NDI's core program areas include citizen participation, elections, debates, democratic governance, democracy and technology, political inclusion of marginalized groups, and gender, women and democracy, peace and security, political parties, and youth political participation. The organization's stated mission is to "support and strengthen democratic institutions worldwide through citizen participation, openness and accountability in government."
Myroslava Gongadze is a Ukrainian journalist and political activist currently living in the United States. Her husband, journalist Georgiy Gongadze, was abducted and murdered in 2000. Since then she has been a prominent advocate for freedom of the press and protection of the safety of reporters in the Ukraine, and has continued to work for justice in the case of her husband's murder.
Luis Carlos Ugalde Ramírez is a Mexican scholar who served as president of the Federal Electoral Institute from 2003 to 2007.
Miria Rukoza Koburunga Matembe, LL.D (honoris causa) is a former member of the Pan-African Parliament from Uganda. While serving there, she was chairperson of the Committee on Rules, Privileges and Discipline a permanent committee of the parliament.
Ali Afshari is an Iranian activist.
Birtukan Mideksa is an Ethiopian politician and former judge who was the founder and leader of the opposition party, the Unity for Democracy and Justice (UDJ) party from 2008 to 2010. She is Chairwoman of the National Electoral Board of Ethiopia.
Morton Isaac Abramowitz is an American diplomat and former U.S. State Department official. He served as U.S. Ambassador to Thailand and Turkey and as the Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research. He retired from the State Department with the rank of Career Ambassador. He then became president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and founded the International Crisis Group.
Jiao Guobiao is a Chinese dissident who was formerly an associate professor at Peking University's College of Journalism and Communications until he was dismissed. A prominent journalist at Chinese Cultural Newspaper from 1996 to 2001, he has published widely on issues of journalism in China. Following the appearance online of his March 2004 essay condemning the Chinese government's Central Propaganda Department and his continued efforts to promote freedom of the press and human rights in China, he was suspended from his teaching duties.
Thomas Carothers is one of the most noted international experts on international democracy support, democratization, and U.S. foreign policy. He serves as vice president for studies at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where he founded and currently directs the Democracy and Rule of Law Program. He has also taught at several universities in the United States and Europe, including Central European University, the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and Nuffield College, Oxford, where he is a senior research fellow.
Carl Gershman has been the President of the National Endowment for Democracy since its 1984 founding. He had served as the U.S. Representative to the U.N.'s Committee on human rights during the first Reagan Administration.
Henry Kwasi Prempeh is Professor of Law at Seton Hall University School of Law, Newark, New Jersey, where he has taught constitutional, corporate, and international business law courses since 2003. Immediately prior to joining the Seton Hall Law faculty, Professor Prempeh was the Director of Legal Policy and Governance of the Ghana Center for Democratic Development (CDD). He continues to serve on the Board of Directors of CDD and is also a board member of Ashesi University, a private university in Ghana. In 2010, he spent his sabbatical year as a Visiting Professor at the newly established law school at the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration in Accra. Professor Prempeh has written and consulted on the issues of constitutionalism, governance, legal policy, and democracy in Ghana and the rest of Africa. He was selected as a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow by the National Endowment for Democracy in 2011. A graduate of Yale Law School, where he served as a teaching fellow and on the Yale Law Journal as an editor, Professor Prempeh also holds an MBA from Baylor University, Texas,and a B.Sc. Admin. degree from University of Ghana Business School. He previously worked in private practice as a law firm associate, first at O'Melveny & Myers LLP and, later, at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, both in Washington, D.C. Professor Prempeh is a founding patron and chairman of the board of Walk2Learn International. Legal Practitioner, Professor Henry Kwasi Prempeh, has been appointed as the new Executive Director for the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development (CDD-Ghana). He was appointed by CDD-Ghana’s Board of Directors. Prof. Prempeh’s appointment, which takes effect from February 1, 2018, follows the retirement of the Centre’s founding Executive Director, Professor E. Gyimah-Boadi.
Roland Rich is an Australian career diplomat who has been the head of the United Nations Democracy Fund since 2007, and is also Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Office for Partnerships. Rich was Australia's Ambassador to Laos from 1994 to 1997, and founding Director of the Australian National University's Centre for Democratic Institutions from 1998 to 2005. He has also been a research fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy and served on the Australian Defence College staff.
The International Forum for Democratic Studies (IFDS) is an initiative of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Established in April 1994, its programs include the Journal of Democracy, the Network of Democracy Research Institutes, and fellowship programs, including the Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellowship Program.
Jared Genser is an international human rights lawyer who serves as managing director of the law firm Perseus Strategies, LLC. He is founder of Freedom Now. Genser is a Senior Fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, was an Associate of the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University from 2014-2016, a Visiting Fellow with the National Endowment for Democracy from 2006-2007, and earlier in his career was named by the National Law Journal as one of "40 Under 40: Washington's Rising Stars."
Michael C. Davis (Chinese name Chinese: 戴大為; pinyin: Dài Dàwéi} is the Professor of Law and International Affairs at India's O.P. Jindal Global University and Residential Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. Until stepping down in 2016, he was professor in the Law Faculty at the University of Hong Kong, where he remains a non-resident senior fellow in the Centre for Comparative and Public Law. His books include Constitutional Confrontation in Hong Kong, Human Rights and Chinese Values, and International Intervention in the Post-Cold War World. His articles have appeared in leading scholarly journals in law and political science. Before moving to Hong Kong, as an Hawaii attorney, he worked for the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation on indigenous rights and land use issues. As a public intellectual and human rights advocate in Hong Kong, he was a founder of both the Article 23 Concern Group and the Article 45 Concern Group which led massive protests for human rights in 2003 and 2004. His human rights work has also included a nearly two decade engagement on the Tibet issue and on human rights and development issues across Asia.
Nadeem F. Paracha is a Pakistani journalist, author and cultural critic. He writes a column in the Dawn newspaper under the title Smokers' Corner.
Niemat Kuku is a development expert and a director and cofounder of the gender research and training centre in Sudan. She is a supporter of women rights and Gender equality in Sudan and was a Reagan-Fascell Democracy Fellow.
