Barbara E. Haig

Barbara Haig "is Vice President for Program, Planning and Evaluation at the National Endowment for Democracy, where she has worked since 1985. The staff which she oversees is responsible for the programmatic development, monitoring and evaluation of the Endowment's international grants program, which covers six regions of the world. In recent years, she has overseen a vast expansion of the Endowment's program in the Arab Middle East, especially Iraq, and Afghanistan. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, she oversaw the development and implementation of several large and complex democracy programs funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in South Africa, Nicaragua and Central and Eastern Europe. From 1981 to 1985, Ms. Haig was Special Assistant to the Associate Director of Programs, and then to the Director, of the United States Information Agency. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and has studied or worked in Latin America, Western and Eastern Europe, Asia and Africa."

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