Andrew A Reding

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• Senior Fellow & Director, Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights, World Policy Institute, New York (since 1983)


• Associate Editor, Pacific News Service, San Francisco (1994-2002)


• City Councilmember, Sanibel, Florida (1996-2000)

A graduate of Middlebury College and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Andrew Reding works on issues involving democracy, human rights, and public policy for the federal government, the media, and a public policy research center. He directs the Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights of the World Policy Institute in New York, where he is also Senior Fellow for Hemispheric Affairs. He also consults on human rights for the U.S. Asylum Program. He was an associate editor of Pacific News Service in San Francisco for eight years. From 1996 to 2000 he served as a member of the Sanibel City Council in Florida.

Reding’s articles have appeared in the World Policy Journal, New York Times Magazine, Washington Quarterly, Worldbusiness, New Perspectives Quarterly, International Interactions, Texas Observer, Mother Jones, The Nation, Christianity & Crisis, and, in Mexico, Proceso, Mira, and Este País. His commentary and opinion pieces have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, International Herald Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Journal of Commerce, Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, Miami Herald, and dozens of regional newspapers, as well as the Globe and Mail, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, and Montreal Gazette in Canada, Excelsior, Reforma, and El Norte in Mexico, and other publications worldwide.

Reding is a frequent public speaker, electoral observer, contributor to books and conferences, and expert witness before House and Senate committees. He has served as a motion picture consultant to Warner Brothers and as a documentary consultant for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.