Elizabeth Spiro Clark is an associate at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University where she teaches a course on democracy promotion in the School of Foreign Service. During 1998-2000 she was a Visiting Fellow with the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy working on problems of global democratization on leave from the State Department. Two publications, "Why Elections Matter" (The Washington Quarterly, summer 2000) and "A Tune-up not an Overhaul" (Journal of Democracy, October 1999) resulted from her fellowship, as well as development of a workshop on democratic innovation for the second assembly of the World Movement for Democracy in Sao Paolo in November 2000.

Ms. Clark is a retired Foreign Service Officer. Her Foreign Service assignments include directing the office of democracy promotion in the Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor from 1995-1998. Ms. Clark served in Iceland and in Norway, where she was the counselor for political affairs in the U.S. Embassy. In the mid eighties she was a political officer in South Africa, analyzing internal political developments for the U.S. government and assisting anti-apartheid movements through a congressionally mandated human rights fund. She held assignments in legislative affairs and as a special assistant for Europe and Africa to the Undersecretary for Political Affairs. She has received a number of reporting and other awards.

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