Pauline H. Baker

Pauline H. Baker is President Emeritus and Trustee of The Fund for Peace, having stepped down as President after fifteen years of service. Dr. Baker also served as a Professorial Lecturer at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and as an Adjunct Professor in the Graduate School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. An internationally recognized political scientist and specialist on Africa and ethnic conflict, Dr. Baker lived and worked in Nigeria from 1964 to 1975. Upon her return to the United States, she served as Staff Director for the Africa Subcommittee of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and subsequently as a Research Scientist at the Human Affairs Research Center at the Battelle Memorial Institute, a Senior Associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as Deputy Director of the Congressional Program at the Aspen Institute, an educational program in which over 100 Members of Congress participated. For several years, she wrote and lectured on South and Southern Africa. She originated and led a South Africa Speakers Forum for eight years. A member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Women's Foreign Policy Group, and various other professional organizations, Dr. Baker appears frequently on the media, lectures widely and is well-published.