About Fund for Peace
Our People
Our Board
George LehnerCHAIR
George Lehner is currently a partner with Pepper Hamilton, where he previously worked in private practice as a litigator. Before returning to Pepper Hamilton, Mr. Lehner was Attorney Adviser International in the US Department of State Office of the Legal Adviser. From 1977-1980, Mr. Lehner also served at the State Department, focusing on international economic and development issues. A Wesleyan University graduate, he was elected Phi Beta Kappa and received his J.D. cum laude from the University of Michigan. Mr. Lehner has authored several journals on international arbitration and business matters and is co-author of Europe Without Frontiers: A Lawyer's Guide. He was appointed Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University School of Law, where he has taught both introductory and advanced courses on European Community Law. Mr. Lehner has served as General Counsel to the Women's International Media Foundation, The Washington Press Club Foundation, and The Women's Foreign Policy Group. Prior to joining the Board of Trustees of The Fund for Peace in December 2002, he served as its pro bono attorney for many years.
Barbara Dillon Hillas
SECRETARY
Barbara Dillon Hillas specializes in the rule of law developing, managing and implementing international legal and judicial reform projects. She has worked with governments, international organizations and NGOs to provide legal and technical assistance to the judiciary, the bar, and law faculties. She has experience working in 16 countries and 5 continents. Since January 2012, Ms. Hillas has been the Lead Subject Matter Expert for the largest Rule of Law program in the world: the Justice Sector Support Program (JSSP) at PAE, Inc., the implementer of the U.S. Department of State's Rule of Law project in Afghanistan. She also serves as a member of The CEELI Institute's International Advisory Board. She earned her JD at The Columbus School of Law, Catholic University of America, and a Masters in European Union Studies at the Istituto degli Studi Europei "Alcide de Gasperi", in Rome. She received her B.A. from Marymount College, New York.
Pauline Baker
PRESIDENT EMERITUS
Pauline H. Baker served as President of The Fund for Peace for fifteen years from 1996 to 2010. Dr. Baker also served as a Professorial Lecturer at The Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and as an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School of Foreign Affairs at Georgetown University. An internationally recognized political scientist and specialist on African affairs and fragile states, Dr. Baker lived and worked in Nigeria from 1964 to 1975. She also conducted research in South Africa and served as Staff Director of the Africa Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. A member of the Council on Foreign Affairs, Dr. Baker appears in the media, lecturers widely and is well-published. Her latest publication is "Unraveling Afghanistan," in the American Interest, December, 2013. She earned her doctorate with Distinction from UCLA in 1970 and did her undergraduate work at Douglass College, Rutgers University.
Kamran Balayev
TRUSTEE
Kamran Balayev read Management, Organisations and Governance at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), followed by Criminal Justice at the University of Cambridge. He was also trained at the Geneva Security Policy Centre, an elite think-tank in Switzerland and in the U.S. Kam was always passionate about community work and led a program that was focusing on raising awareness of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. He has been working on various projects including consultancy in London and worldwide. His current project's focus is cyber risk and security, digital economy, robotics and AI.
Stanley Byers
TRUSTEE
Stanley S. Byers is a Senior Advisor at Technology for Global Security. Stan's interests include mapping the converging investment and social implications of economic growth, exponential technologies, and cybersecurity threats in emerging markets. He is an expert on sustainable investment and risk in complex markets in Africa, Latin America and Central Asia. He previously served as the lead for economics and development for Afghanistan and Pakistan at the White House National Security Council and was a leader of Ernst & Young's Cyber Economics team, analyzing the geopolitical and economics aspects of cybersecurity. Other work has focused on global trends in the extractives industry, energy infrastructure investment, and fair trade practices. Stan is also the lead for AI and Emerging Markets with the AI Initiative and Future Society at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He earned a B.S. in Ecology from Purdue University and an MPP from the Harvard Kennedy School with a focus on economics and development. He speaks Portuguese and is working on Spanish and French.
MG (ret) Michael W. Davidson
TRUSTEE
General Davidson's military career concluded with six years of service on the Joint Staff in the Pentagon where he was the Assistant Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, for National Guard matters. Prior to that time, his assignments as a general officer were as the Deputy Commander in Chief for Mobilization and Reserve Affairs, U.S. Special Operations Command; Deputy Commanding General (National Guard), U. S. Army Special Operations Command; and the Adjutant General of Kentucky. He is a Vietnam veteran and served with the Airborne Ranger Infantry Company of the First Air Cavalry Division in Vietnam. General Davidson is an attorney admitted to practice in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. He holds a PhD from the University of Louisville and authored Victory at Risk: Renewing America's Military Power. He serves on public and private boards, both for profit and not for profit. He currently serves as the outside director for a US subsidiary of DB Schenker, a European based global logistics and freight company.
Jonathan Drimmer
TRUSTEE
Jonathan Drimmer is one of the world's leading attorneys on business and human rights, and is a frequent speaker, author and commentator on human rights, the UN Guiding Principles on Security and Human Rights, the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, the UK Modern Slavery Act, and Environmental, Social and Governance Issues. He is the former Deputy General Counsel and Chief Compliance Officer of Barrick Gold, one of the world's largest mining companies, where he developed among the first global human rights programs after the groundbreaking adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human rights. He thus is perhaps the only private practitioner to have designed, implemented, and overseen a global rights program regulatory for a major multi-national company. The program he built at Barrick has served as an industry standard, and elements of it have largely been duplicated by numerous other companies in and outside of the extractive sector. As one publication noted, Mr. Drimmer has \"amass[ed] global accolades for compliance innovations\" (Law 360, May 25, 2019), and aspects of Barrick's human rights program are the subject of a 2016 Harvard Business School Case Study. He has been recognized as one of the world's leading attorneys in ethics and compliance by Ethisphere Magazine, was selected by the National Law Journal as Regulatory & Compliance Trailblazer, was recognized by Legal Era as one of the top 100 in-house counsel in the world, and was selected by Law500 as one of the 100 most influential in-house counsel in the U.S. and in Canada. In addition to Fund for Peace, he also currently serves on the boards of directors of the Global Compact Network Canada and the UN Global Compact Business for Peace initiative, and served on the Board of Directors of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights from 2012-2014 and 2015-2017. He is a Strategic Advisor for the Secretariat of the Voluntary Principles on Security and Human Rights, and a Senior Advisor to the consultancy Business for Social Responsibility (BSR). He received the first U.S. Department of Justice Assistant Attorney General Award for Human Rights Law Enforcement, and has taught international law courses at Georgetown University Law Center for nearly 20 years.
Daniel Ganz
TRUSTEE
Daniel Ganz is a senior executive, business developer, and project manager with more than 20 years of experience in emerging markets. He is the founder and president of Federal Capture LLC, a consulting firm that provides business development services to organizations seeking to work directly with the US government and international development agencies. Over the course of his business development career, Dan successfully opened new markets for his employers in political transitions, local governance, and peacebuilding. Dan is also a public financial management specialist, having worked with and for USAID, the OSCE, and the World Bank in Easter Europe, Central Asia, and North Africa. His last resident post was the Republic of Srpska in Bosnia and Herzegovina, serving as the Senior Budget Advisor to the Ministry of Finance. Dan earned his M.P.A from the University of Delaware and B.A from the George Washington University.
Emily Holland
TRUSTEE
Emily Holland is a senior associate in the Washington DC office of White & Case and a core member of the firm's Business and Human Rights Group. In that capacity, Emily works with lawyers across practice areas to provide advice and training to boards, executives, in-house counsel, and human rights, sustainability and CSR professionals to identify and manage human rights/ESG risks and opportunities across project development, investment planning, due diligence, compliance, and supply chain processes. Outside of the Business & Human Rights space, Emily represents corporations and individuals in civil, criminal, and regulatory investigations and litigation involving fraud, bribery, money laundering, economic sanctions, export controls, and other areas of law. Prior to joining White & Case, Emily worked as a senior associate at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and in the journalism and humanitarian fields, visiting numerous high-risk jurisdictions worldwide, and briefly served in the US State Department's Office of Policy Planning. She has published extensively on human rights issues as a lawyer, journalist and NGO professional. In 2011, And Still Peace Did Not Come - a memoir Emily co-authored documenting the life of a Liberian woman who has spent her life gathering the stories of former child soldiers and their victims, both in her home country, Liberia, and in New York - was published. The book was endorsed by Gloria Steinem and chosen for the Starbucks Digital Network in-store reading club. Emily also sits on the board of Princeton in Africa.
Siobhan MacDermott
TRUSTEE
Siobhan MacDermott is one of the foremost experts on the future of Information Technology, consumer dynamics, cybersecurity, privacy, and business leadership, both within the U.S. and globally. She currently serves as Chief Policy Officer of AVG Technologies.
Ms. MacDermott has worked in senior leadership positions at some of the best U.S. and global technology companies. As both advisor and executive, she helped direct strategy, global marketing, media relations, communications, investor relations, government relations, issue management and policy for companies such as Intel-MacAfee, AVG Technologies, Oracle, HP, RSA Security, Betrusted and Sprint PCS. In that capacity, she has worked directly and extensively with Boards of Directors and has lead successful initiatives to engage governments, stakeholders, including policymakers, NGOs and global institutions on existing and emerging issues and regulations.
Ms. MacDermott is widely published, appears frequently in the media and speaks at conferences around the world - working with and participating in the World Economic Forum and the Clinton Global Initiative. She has authored white papers and articles on privacy, consumer dynamics, consumer rights and winning leadership and business strategies. Most recently, Ms. MacDermott authored a Children's book on Internet Safety - "Little Bird's Internet Security Adventure" and "Wide Open Privacy - Strategies for the Digital Life" (IT-Harvest Press, 2012).
Ms. MacDermott is both a U.S. and EU national, has worked on four continents and speaks five languages. She received her MBA in International Business from Thunderbird School of Global Management, is working on her second Masters degree at the Fletcher School of Tufts University, and advises and serves on several Board of Directors of U.S. and international institutions.
David E. Morey
TRUSTEE
David Morey, Vice Chairman of Core Strategy Group and Founder of DMG, is one of America's leading strategic consultants. He is co-author of the award-winning book: The Underdog Advantage (McGraw-Hill), and for many years served as Adjunct Professor of International Affairs at Columbia University. Additionally, Mr. Morey was Chairman of the Council on Foreign Relations' Task Force on Public Diplomacy and served on the Defense Science Board's Task Force on U.S. Strategic Communications and National Security. Over the years, Mr. Morey has worked with some of the world's top business leaders - and he has advised five Noble Peace Prize winners and fifteen winning global presidential campaigns, including that of President Barack Obama.
His corporate clients include Verizon, Pepsi, Mars, KPMG, Deloitte, McDonald's, Microsoft, News Corp., Nike, P&G, Disney, Visa, Coca-Cola, TPG, GE, American Express, Google, Linked-in, Merck, CVS, Samsung and many others. Mr. Morey is the former Co-Chair of the Fund for Peace and serves on a number of corporate and public sector boards.
Our Partners
Fund for Peace is grateful for the kind support of our current (and recent) donors and funders and for the assistance of our partners. | Australian Civil-Military Center of Excellence |
 | African Development Bank |
 | AFRICOM: U.S. Africa Command |
 | American University |
 | AngloGold Ashanti |
 | Barrick Gold |
 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace |
 | Chevron |
 | Creative Associates |
 | Creative Frontiers |
 | DCAF: Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces |
 | DFID: U.K. Department for International Development |
 | ECOWAS: Economic Community of West African States |
 | ExxonMobile |
 | Ford Foundation |
 | Freeport-McMoRan |
 | Georgetown University |
 | Global Affairs Canada |
 | Ghana Ministry of Lands and Natural Resources |
 | GoldCorp |
 | Havas Australia |
 | Humanity United |
 | IDB Invest: Inter-American Development Bank |
 | Independent Electoral Boundaries Commission, Kenya |
 | International Alert |
 | International Finance Corporation |
 | Karuna Center |
 | Korea Republic Ministry of Unification |
 | Kosmos Energy |
 | MacArthur Foundation |
 | Monkey Forest Consulting |
 | NATO |
 | NDPI: Niger Delta Partnerships Initiative |
 | NED: National Endowment for Democracy |
 | Nederland Ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken |
 | Newmont Mining |
 | News Deeply |
 | Norge Det kongelige Utenriksdepartement |
 | NSRP: Nigeria Stabilization and Reconciliation Program |
 | Open Society Foundation |
 | Partners for Peace Nigeria |
 | PIND: Foundation for Partnership Initiatives in the Niger Delta |
 | PKSOI: Peacekeeping and Stabilization Operations Institute |
 | Ploughshares Fund |
 | SIPRI: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute |
 | Tullow Oil |
 | United Nations Foundation |
 | University of Mines and Technology, Ghana |
 | U.S. Agency for International Development |
 | U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency |
 | U.S. Department of Defense |
 | U.S. Department of State |
 | U.S. Institute for Peace |
 | U.S. Marine Corps |
 | U.S. Pacific Command |
 | U.S. Southern Command |
 | WANEP: West Africa Network for Peacebuilding |
 | World Gold Council |
Where we Work
Our History
For over 60 years, The Fund for Peace (FFP) has been a world leader in developing practical tools and approaches for reducing conflict. With a clear focus on the nexus of human security and economic development, FFP contributes to more peaceful and prosperous societies by engineering smarter methodologies and smarter partnerships. FFP empowers policy-makers, practitioners, and populations with context-specific, data-driven applications to diagnose risks and vulnerabilities and to develop solutions through collective dialogue.
60 Years of Sustainable Security: 1957-2017
Originally founded in San Francisco as the Pierce Butler, Jr. Foundation for Education in World Law, The Fund for Peace was created in 1957 by the Randolph P. Compton and his wife Dorothy Danforth as a think tank and foundation primarily focused on the most pressing issue of the Cold War era - nuclear non-proliferation. Their son, James R. Compton, continued his parents' legacy, serving as President Emeritus of The Fund for Peace until his death in 2006.
As the challenges facing our world have shifted over the decades, so too have our approaches and programming. In the beginning, FFP's role was as a philanthropic funder of a variety of organizations committed to nuclear non-proliferation during an era of extreme global tensions at the height of the Cold War. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and an end to the Cold War, FFP re-evaluated its mission and purpose, and emerged as an implementing organization dedicated to responding to the challenges weak and fragile states. Today, FFP is focused on understanding and addressing issues of violent conflict, state fragility, and security and human rights. We work with a variety of partners in government, multilateral organizations, security forces, foundations, corporations, civil society organizations, and local communities in dozens of countries around the world.