Georges A. Fauriol
Senior Vice President

Georges A. Fauriol joined the International Republican Institute (IRI) in October 2001. He currently serves as Senior Vice President with a varied portfolio of responsibilities. He has also served as Vice President of Strategic Planning, and was Acting President in summer 2004. Before joining the staff of IRI, Fauriol participated in many IRI assessment missions, training workshops, and election observations beginning in the late 1980s.

Prior to joining IRI, Fauriol served as Director and Senior Fellow of the Americas Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies where he was the senior scholar specializing in Western Hemisphere issues – the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America, and Canada. Additionally, Fauriol served as the Mexico seminar course chair at the U.S. Department of State’s Foreign Service Institute from 1992 to 2000.

Previously, Fauriol worked with the Foreign Policy Research Institute, the U.S. Information Agency and the Inter-American Development Bank. He is a research council member of the Center for a Free Cuba, and has served as an adjunct senior research associate at the University of Miami’s North-South Center. He has testified before Senate and House subcommittees 18 times.

Fauriol is the author or coauthor of several books and more than 50 publications. His articles have appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Miami Herald, The Baltimore Sun, The Christian Science Monitor, Orbis, and Foreign Affairs.

The son of a foreign service officer, Fauriol was born in France, grew up in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Chicago, Illinois. Fauriol received his master’s and his doctorate degrees from the University of Pennsylvania, and a bachelor’s degree from Ohio University.