Volume 3, Number 1 - International Development - Special Edition 1999

Title: A Practitioner Reflects on Development

Author: Ambassador Peter Jon de Vos

About the Author: Peter Jon de Vos is a distinguished American diplomat with diverse experiences in Latin America, Africa, Europe, and Washington, D.C. Over the course of his foreign service career, de Vos held the top diplomatic post in Tanzania, Liberia, Mozambique, Guinea-Bissau, and Cape Verde. He was appointed the first presidential envoy for Somalia in 1992. Ambassador de Vos retired from the foreign service in October of 1997 and recently spent a year at the Harris School of Public Policy teaching classes and serving as a resource to faculty and students.

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