<span class="vcard">Larry Garber</span>

Larry Garber

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Larry Garber is an independent consultant with more than 35 years of experience working on issues relating to international development, democratic elections, and human rights. He served for 15 years as a senior official with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), including five years as mission director for USAID/West Bank-Gaza. From 2004-2009, he was Chief Executive Officer at the New Israel Fund and, more recently, has consulted with The Carter Center, National Democratic Institute, Civilians in Conflict, and other non-governmental organizations.

Mr. Garber taught for two years at the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy and currently teaches as an adjunct faculty at George Washington and Arizona State Universities. He has published on a wide range of subjects, including critiquing USAID policy, developing guidelines for international election observing, promoting election reforms in the United States, and preventing election violence. Most recently, he co-authored a major USAID-funded research report, which examined how four approaches — co-creation; engaging new and nontraditional actors via the New Partnerships Initiative (NPI); convening power; and integrated programming — relate to USAID operations and objectives.

Mr. Garber received joint law and international affairs degrees from Columbia University.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Task Force on Election Crises, and serves on the boards of the Election Reformers Network and Friends of Givat Haviva. He is also on LinkedIn.

The views expressed are the author’s own and do not necessarily reflect those of any organization with which he has been affiliated. 

 

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A bird's eye view of Zimbabwean citizens waiting in a queue at a polling station before voting commences in Mabvuku suburb on August 23, 2023 in Harare. (Photo by Tafadzwa Ufumeli/Getty Images)
A woman carrying a baby in a sling on her back casts a ballot at a polling station on March 26, 2022 in Mbizo township, Kwekwe, Zimbabwe, during parliamentary and local authority by-elections that were seen as a yardstick of what is to come in the 2023 general polls. (Photo by ZINYANGE AUNTONY/AFP via Getty Images)
A Palestinian woman shows her ink-stained finger as she casts her ballot while voting in the Palestinian local elections in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on March 26, 2022.

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