Larry Garber is an independent consultant with more than 35 years of experience working on issues relating to international development, democratic elections and human rights. He served for 15 years as a senior official with the US Agency for International Development (USAID), including five years as mission director for USAID/West Bank-Gaza. From 2004-2009, he was Chief Executive Officer at the New Israel Fund and, more recently, has served as adviser to The Carter Center and other non-governmental organizations.
Larry taught for two years at the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy and currently teaches as an adjunct faculty at George Washington and Arizona State Universities. He has published on a wide range of subjects, including advancing Palestinian development, promoting reforms at USAID, and preventing election violence. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Task Force on Election Crises, and serves on the Boards of Election Reformers Network and Givat Haviva Education Fund.