Joshua Marks

Joshua Marks "is a Truman Project Principal and the Central Africa Program Officer at the National Endowment for Democracy (Washington, DC), where he is responsible for democracy and governance programs in seven countries. His most recent trips have included assessment missions in Rwanda, Chad, Equatorial Guinea, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC).  Previously a consultant for Oxfam and Small Arms Survey in the Great Lakes Region, Josh has worked on security and human rights issues in eastern DRC, where he lived in 2004-05.  He has also worked with a local NGO in DRC, the U.S. Department of Defense, and was a faculty associate at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (Washington, DC).  He has published articles or reports in African Security Review and Small Arms Survey, among others.  A graduate of Yale University and Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, Josh speaks French, Swahili, and some Portuguese."