Ted L. Howard

Ted Howard "is the founding Executive Director of The Democracy Collaborative. Previously he was the Executive Director of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives, a research institute based in Washington, D.C. For the past three decades he has worked in the not-for-profit/civil society sector, including more than 15 years in international development with NGOs and agencies of the UN system. He is author or co-author of several books, including Ending Hunger, Entropy, and Who Should Play God? He is on the boards of directors of the Civil Society Development Foundation of Hungary and Catalytic Communities, a Brazilian NGO. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Search for Common Ground, the world’s largest conflict resolution NGO, and the European Centre for Common Ground, a Belgian NGO. "