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Above: In Niger, one girl smiles while the other hides from the camera. The Carter Center is working to eliminate the bacterial eye disease trachoma from the country.

The Carter Center Around the World

Since its founding in 1982, The Carter Center has undertaken peace and health initiatives in more than 80 countries worldwide. These are the countries where the Center has had a presence, past and present.

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North America

1 Canada 2 Mexico 3 United States

Caribbean and Central America

4 Belize

5 Costa Rica

6 Cuba

7 Dominican Republic

8 El Salvador

9 Guatemala

10 Haiti 11 Honduras 12 Jamaica 13 Nicaragua 14 Panama

South America

15 Argentina 16 Bolivia 17 Brazil 18 Chile 19 Colombia 20 Ecuador 21 Guyana 22 Paraguay 23 Peru 24 Suriname 25 Venezuela

Europe

26 Albania 27 Bosnia and Herzegovina 28 Estonia 29 Romania

Africa

30 Algeria 31 Angola 32 Benin 33 Burkina Faso 34 Burundi 35 Cameroon 36 Central African Republic 37 Chad 38 Cote d’Ivoire 39 Democratic Republic of the Congo 40 Eritrea 41 Ethiopia 42 Ghana 43 Guinea 44 Kenya 45 Liberia 46 Libya 47 Madagascar 48 Malawi 49 Mali 50 Mauritania 51 Mozambique 52 Niger 53 Nigeria 54 Rwanda 55 Senegal 56 Sierra Leone 57 Somalia 58 South Africa 59 South Sudan 60 Sudan 61 Tanzania 62 Togo 63 Tunisia 64 Uganda 65 Zambia 66 Zimbabwe

Middle East

67 Egypt 68 Israel and Palestine 69 Jordan 70 Lebanon 71 Qatar 72 Syria 73 United Arab Emirates 74 Yemen

Asia

75 Bangladesh 76 China 77 India 78 Indonesia 79 Myanmar 80 Nepal 81 North Korea 82 Pakistan 83 Philippines 84 Sri Lanka 85 Timor-Leste

Oceania

86 New Zealand

Senior Staff

Paige Alexander Chief Executive Officer

Peace Programs

Barbara Smith, M.S. Vice President, Peace Programs

Elana Aquino, M.A. Director, Conflict Resolution Program

David Carroll, Ph.D. Director, Democracy Program

Susan Marx, MSt., M.A. Director, Human Rights Program

Leanne Webster, J.D., M.P.A. Director, Rule of Law Program

Cross-Program

P. Craig Withers Jr., M.H.A., M.B.A. Vice President, Overseas Operations

Health Programs

Kashef Ijaz, M.D., M.P.H. Vice President, Health Programs

Eve H. Byrd, D.N.P., M.P.H. Director, Mental Health Program

Kelly Callahan, M.P.H. Director, Trachoma Control Program

William H. Foege, M.D., M.P.H. Senior Fellow, Health Policy

Gregory Noland, Ph.D., M.P.H. Director, River Blindness, Lymphatic Filariasis, Schistosomiasis, and Malaria

Adam Weiss, M.P.H. Director, Guinea Worm Eradication Program

Operations

Laynea Allen Director; People, Operations, and Programs

Christopher D. Brown, CPA Vice President, Finance; Treasurer

Beth M. Davis Chief Operating Officer

Matthew De Galan Vice President, Communications

Lauren L. Gay Corporate Secretary

Nicole Kruse Vice President, Development

Educational Programs

Zarie Riley, Ph.D. Director, Educational Programs

Interns and Graduate Assistants

The Carter Center sponsors a competitive internship program, bringing to Atlanta college students and recent graduates from universities around the world each semester. Interns and graduate assistants play a vital role in helping The Carter Center accomplish its peace and health initiatives, and interns serve in many capacities around the Center. In turn, The Carter Center provides a substantive learning experience that serves as a basis for interns to explore their career options and to develop professional skills. Over its history, The Carter Center has had 3,722 interns from 109 countries and 659 universities who spoke 174 languages.

Some of the recent Carter Center interns and the offices where they worked include (clockwise from top left) David Aguilar with the Latin America and Caribbean Focus, Marion Smart with the Human Rights Program, Rida Akbar with Trachoma Control Program, and Amanda Ngarambe Isaro with special health projects.

Jeatrice Mubunga, a community drug distributor in Uganda’s Kasese district, walks door to door during the final mass administration of the drug that treats and prevents river blindness. The area is suspected of having halted transmission of the disease, a sign of success.

The Carter Center Board of Trustees

The Carter Center is governed by its Board of Trustees, which oversees the Center’s assets and advances its objectives and goals.

Chair

Jason Carter Partner Bondurant, Mixson & Elmore, LLP

Vice Chair

C.D. Glin President and Global Head of Philanthropy The PepsiCo Foundation

Trustees

Terrence B. Adamson Co-chair, Board of Directors The Henry Luce Foundation

Arthur M. Blank Owner and Chairman Atlanta Falcons Chairman The Arthur M. Blank Family Foundation

Kathryn E. Cade Board Member Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregivers

Susan A. Cahoon Retired Partner Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton, LLP

Doug Dillard Managing Partner Slewgrass Partners

J. Crystal Edmonson Broadcast Editor Atlanta Business Chronicle

Gregory L. Fenves President Emory University

The Hon. Gordon D. Giffin Partner Dentons US, LLP

Ben F. Johnson III Retired Partner Alston & Bird

Sherry Lansing CEO The Sherry Lansing Foundation

Douglas W. Nelson Retired President and CEO Annie E. Casey Foundation

Ambassador Susan D. Page Professor of Practice, Weiser Diplomacy Center University of Michigan

Wendell S. Reilly Retired Chairman Berman Capital Advisors

Teresa Rivero Senior Program Officer Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation

Justice Leah Ward Sears Partner Smith, Gambrell & Russell

The Hon. Doug Shipman President Atlanta City Council

Hugo X. Shong Founding General Partner IDG Capital Partners

Gregory J. Vaughn, M.D. Consultant Spencer Stuart

Rochelle Walensky, M.D. Former Director U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Ellen H. Yankellow, Pharm.D. President and CEO Correct Rx Pharmacy Services Inc.

Trustees Emeritus

The Hon. James T. Laney Former U.S. Ambassador to South Korea

John J. Moores Investor and Chair San Diego Padres

Dame Marjorie M. Scardino Former CEO Pearson PLC

Chilton D. Varner Partner King & Spalding

Founders

Jimmy Carter 39th President of the United States

Rosalynn Carter Former First Lady of the United States

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