Pauline H. Baker is President of The Fund for Peace,
a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C. that is
dedicated to preventing war and alleviating the conditions
that cause conflict. Dr. Baker has also served as an Adjunct
Professor in the Graduate School of Foreign Service at
Georgetown University and is a Professorial Lecturer at the
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.
A political scientist who earned her doctorate with distinction
from UCLA in 1970, Dr. Baker did her undergraduate work
at Douglass College, Rutgers University. From 1964 to 1975,
she lived and worked in Nigeria, teaching at the University of
Lagos. Dr. Baker also has worked in, and traveled throughout,
other African countries and the developing world. She won a
Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship to conduct research in
Southern Africa and became a specialist in the U.S. response
to countries in political transition.
Upon her return from Nigeria, Dr. Baker became a professional
staff member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where
she was staff director of the Africa Subcommittee and covered
committee activities dealing with the former Soviet Union,
the Middle East and South Asia. Her congressional experience
also includes serving as Deputy Director of the Aspen
Institute's Congressional Program, an educational forum in
which over 100 Senators and Representatives from both parties participated.
Dr. Baker has also been a senior associate at the Carnegie
Endowment for International Peace, where she founded and
ran a speakers breakfast series on South Africa that extended
for eight years that had over 110 speakers from southern
Africa address the foreign policy community. She also wrote,
lectured and provided congressional testimony on U.S. policy toward Africa.
Dr. Baker led the reorganization of the Fund for Peace, a
leading educational and research organization focusing on
weak and failing state, and launched several innovative programs.
A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Women's
Foreign Policy Group, the American Political Science Association
and various other professional organizations, Dr. Baker appears
frequently on the media, lectures widely and writes on a
range of international issues. Her latest publications include
"The Failed States Index" in Foreign Policy magazine;
"Nigeria; U.S.-European Stakes in Africa's Largest State"
in Richard N. Haass, ed., Transatlantic Tensions: The
United States, Europe, and Problem Countries (1999);
"The United States and South Africa: Persuasion and Coercion,"
in Richard N. Haass, Honey and Viengar: Incentives, Sanctions,
and Foreign Policy (2000) and "Conflict Resolution Versus
Democratic Governance: Divergent Paths to Peace?" in Managing
Global Chaos: Sources of and Responses to International
Conflict (2000), edited by Chester Crocker, Fen Osler Hampson
and Pamela All.
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