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34 THE ROAD AHEAD
ABOUT THE PROJECT DIRECTORS
FREDERICK D. BARTON
Frederick Barton currently serves as a Senior Adviser in the International Security Program and Co-
Director of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at CSIS. Mr. Barton is also a visiting lecturer
at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, where he was previously the Frederick H.
Schultz Professor of Economic Policy. Prior to that, as UN Deputy High Commissioner for
Refugees in Geneva (1999-2001), Mr. Barton worked to protect and find durable solutions for 22
million uprooted people in 130 countries. He was the first director of the Office of Transition
Initiatives at the U.S. Agency for International Development in Washington, D.C. (1994-1999),
where he helped to start political development programs in over 20 war-torn regions, from the
Philippines to Rwanda, from Bosnia to Haiti. He was also president of Barton & Gingold in
Portland, Maine (1983-1994), providing services in strategic planning, marketing, crisis management,
and organizational development to commercial, governmental, and nonprofit clients. Mr. Barton
served Secretaries Joseph Califano and Patricia Roberts Harris (HEW and HHS, respectively) as
New England Director of Public Affairs in Boston (1978-1981). He has served as chairman of the
Maine Democratic Party and on the Democratic National Committee. A graduate of Harvard
College (1971), Mr. Barton earned his M.B.A. from Boston University (1982), with an emphasis on
public management, and received an honorary doctor of humane letters from Wheaton College of
Massachusetts (2001).
BATHSHEBA N. CROCKER
Bathsheba Crocker is a Fellow and Co-Director of the Post-Conflict Reconstruction Project at the
Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington D.C. From 2002-2003, she was
a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, working on post-conflict
reconstruction issues at CSIS. She has co-authored three CSIS reports on post-conflict
reconstruction in Iraq and was a member of a CSIS-led reconstruction assessment team that went to
Iraq in July 2003 at the request of the U.S. Department of Defense. She also co-authored Winning
the Peace in Iraq, which appeared in the Spring 2003 edition of The Washington Quarterly. She has
written chapters on post-conflict reconstruction in Kosovo, Iraq, and Sierra Leone, which will
appear in a forthcoming book to be published in the spring of 2004. Ms. Crocker is also a visiting
professor at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Before joining
CSIS, Ms. Crocker worked as an attorney-adviser in the Legal Adviser’s Office at the U.S.
Department of State, where she focused on foreign assistance, appropriations law, and economic
sanctions issues. Prior to that, she served as the Deputy U.S. Special Representative for the
Southeast Europe Initiative in Rome, Italy, working on economic reconstruction in the Balkans. She
has previously served as the executive assistant to the Deputy National Security Advisor at the White
House. She received a B.A. from Stanford University, a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and a
Masters in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University.