Speakers for Webinar Series: Reimagining Peace and Security in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gerardo Berthin (Bolivia)

Vice President of International Programs at Freedom House

Gerardo Berthin is a political scientist specializing in applied democratic governance policy in areas such as human rights, anti-corruption, accountability, and civic engagement. He has over two decades of experience in senior and/or executive positions, such as vice president, director, chief of party, senior technical policy adviser, and/or program officer. Mr. Berthin has managed and led an array of large and complex democratic governance policy reform programs. He has worked in over 45 countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, the Caribbean and Central and Eastern Europe on behalf of international development organizations such as the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation (SDC), the World Bank, and the Swedish Agency for Development Cooperation (SIDA). Mr. Berthin has led and conducted over 30 independent assessments and evaluations to incorporate democratic governance into donor and/or national strategies in Latin America and Eastern Europe. He has developed manuals, guides, training courses and knowledge products on several topics related to democratic governance. He is the author of two books on political development and democracy, co-author of three books about democratic governance, political parties and institutional development respectively and is the author of over 40 articles in specialized peer reviewed social science academic journals and/or books in topics related to democratic governance, transparency, and anti-corruption. He is also author and co-author of 12 UNDP National Human Development Reports on various democratic governance issues in a number of countries around the world (Bolivia, Romania, Bulgaria, and Moldova). Mr. Berthin graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from the George Washington University, he holds two Masters Degrees: one in Political Science from the University of Chicago, the other in Latin American Studies from Georgetown University. In addition, he has a Certificate from Harvard University’s J.F.K School of Government for Leaders in Development to manage political and economic reform and a Trainers’ Certificate from the United Nations Staff College in Turin-Italy. He has been a professor and trainer for undergraduate and graduate university students and for government and non-governmental professionals, as well as youth organizations, in topics such as democratic governance, anti-corruption, social accountability, and civic engagement, among others. Mr. Berthin blogs at www.4democraticgovernance.com Mr. Berthin’s public library https://gerardoberthin.academia.edu/