Patrick Fn'Piere, Senior Associate

Patrick Fn’Piere, Senior Associate at Democracy International, has more than 25 years of international and domestic experience in strategic planning, policy development, operations management, public/private partnerships, and strategic communications and has worked throughout the world. He is currently managing DI’s 2010 election observation mission to Afghanistan; he served as a short-term observer in DI’s 2009 election observation mission there. Mr. Fn’Piere has served since 2004 as a Senior Advisor with the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), most recently in Haiti and Zimbabwe. Before joining OTI, Mr. Fn’Piere was Senior Vice President at the Pacific Council on International Policy, a leading foreign policy think tank. From 1997 to 2001, he served as Director of the Inter-America & Pacific Region of the United States Peace Corps. From 1993 to 1997, Mr. Fn’Piere served as the Senior Advisor for Governance in the Center for Democracy and Governance at USAID, and before that he was Vice President for Public Affairs at the National Institute for Dispute Resolution and Public Affairs Officer for the League of Women Voters. During the 1980s he worked for a number of national political campaigns, and he served in the Peace Corp in the Central African Republic. Mr. Fn’Piere is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and of the Pacific Council on International Policy in Los Angeles. He holds a B.A. degree in philosophy and political science from LaSalle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and pursued graduate studies in philosophy at Villanova University.