PRESIDENT

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 is currently a Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and formerly taught as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

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; "Fixing Failed States: The New Security Agenda," in The Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations (Winter/Spring 2007); "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.

Education
University of California Los Angeles, PhD
University of California Los Angeles, MA
Rutgers University, BA

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