Dr. Calingaert oversees Freedom House's global portfolio of civil society and media programs. He previously served as Professorial Lecturer at American University, Associate Director of American University's Center for Democracy and Election Management, and Associate Director of the Commission on Federal Election Reform, which was co-chaired by Jimmy Carter and James A. Baker, III. Dr. Calingaert has served as Director for Asia and as Deputy Director for Eastern Europe at the International Republican Institute, where he designed and managed a wide range of programs to promote democracy. These programs strengthened civil society, parliaments, governance, political parties, and elections in more than a dozen countries. Dr. Calingaert began his career as a researcher at the RAND Corporation and later directed programs of the Civic Education Project to reform social science education at universities across Eastern Europe and Eurasia. He graduated with highest honors in International Relations from Tufts University and earned his M.Phil. and D.Phil. from Oxford University.

Tom Dine served as the President of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty headquartered in Prague, Czech Republic from 1997-2005. Prior to his leadership of the radios, he was the Assistant Administrator of U.S. Agency for International Development’s programs in Central Europe and the former Soviet Union from. For more than ten years, Mr. Dine was the Executive Director of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.

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