ANDREW REDING
Senior Fellow for Hemispheric Affairs
Director, Building Global Democracy
and Human Rights   

Expertise: Human rights, democracy, and associated multilateral institutions in Europe and the Americas; the European Union (Reding is a dual citizen of Belgium); Mexico and Central America 

Andrew Reding, a graduate of Middlebury College and Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, consults on human rights, democracy, and international affairs for the federal government, the media, and a public policy research center. He has an appointment as International Affairs Expert with the Department of Justice in Washington, and directs WPI's Project for Global Democracy and Human Rights. Reding's policy articles and reports have appeared in numerous periodicals in the U.S. and abroad, including World Policy Journal, Washington Quarterly, New York Times Magazine, Worldbusiness, New Perspectives Quarterly, Texas Observer, Mother Jones, The Nation,, and, in Mexico, Proceso, Mira, and Este País. His commentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, Newsday, Journal of Commerce, and dozens of regional newspapers, as well as the Globe and Mail, National Post, Ottawa Citizen, Toronto Star, and Montreal Gazette in Canada, and Reforma, El Norte, Excelsior, and El Financiero in Mexico. He has been an expert witness before House and Senate committees, and served as a motion picture consultant to Warner Brothers and documentary consultant to the CBC. He is involved in public policy at the local level, having recently completed a four-year term as city council member in Sanibel, Florida.

Experience 
Expert, Bureau of International Affairs, U.S. Department of Justice (since May 1994). Associate Editor, Pacific News Service, San Francisco (1994-2002); City Councilmember (1996-2000), and Vice Mayor (1999-2000), Sanibel, FL. Has appeared as expert witness before House and Senate committees, and served as electoral observer in Mexico and Central America, and as consultant to a motion picture studio (Warner Brothers) and a documentary producer (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation) 

In addition to the World Policy Journal, Reding’s work has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, New York Times Book Review, Washington Quarterly, New Perspectives Quarterly, Worldbusiness, The Nation, Mother Jones, Utne Reader, and Este PaÌs (Mexico). Reding is a frequent contributor of op-eds and commentaries to major newspapers, including The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Miami Herald, Globe and Mail (Canada), and Reforma (Mexico). He has contributed to several books.

Honors & Affiliations 
Compton Fellowship in World Order Studies; U.S. Public Service Education

     Fellowship 

Education
M.A., Department of Politics, Princeton University 
M.P.A., Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs,

     Princeton University 
B.A., magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Middlebury College 

Languages
English, French, Spanish 

Contact areding(at)worldpolicy.org

SELECT PUBLICATIONS

"A Swiss Prescription for what Ails Belgium," The Globe and Mail, March 17,2008.

Why No Equal Rights for Serbs? The Globe and Mail. November 2, 2007.

"Call it Israel-Palestine - Try Federal Solution in the Middle East," Pacific News Service, June 25, 2002.

"Bush is Wrong on the International Criminal Court," Miami Herald, May 10, 2002.

"EU in Position to be World's Next Great Superpower," Chicago Tribune, January 6, 2002.

"Nicaragua's New Constitution: A Close Reading," Vol 4, No. 2, 1987. 

"Costa Rica: Democratic Model in Jeopardy," World Policy Journal, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1986. 

"On Nicaraguan Democracy," (interviews with Clemente Guido, Mauricio Diaz Davila, Sixto Ulloa Dona, and Rafael Solis Cerda), World Policy Journal, Vol. 2, No. 3, 1985.

"Backing Democracy and Development," World Policy Journal, Vol. 1, No. 3, 1984.

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