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Date: November 26, 1997Ford Foundation Representative to Speak on "NGOs in South Africa"
PRINCETON, N.J. -- John Gerhart, the Ford Foundation's representative for South Africa and Namibia, will speak on "Non-Govenimental Organizations in South Africa: From Protest to Civil Society," at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Thursday, December 11, at 4:30 p.m. in Robertson Hall, Bowl 5.
Gerhart, who was recently named president of the American University in Cairo, a post he will assume in September 1998, holds a master of public affairs degree (1969) and a Ph.D. (I 975) from the Woodrow Wilson School. He joined the Ford Foundation 29 years ago, and in his years there has been an economic adviser to the Kenyan Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning, a program assistant in the foundation's East and Southern Africa Office, a project specialist in Botswana, and a program adviser in agriculture in Nairobi. He also has served as deputy vice president of the foundation's Developing Country Programs, and director of its Africa and Middle East Programs.
The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs is sponsoring Gerhart's lecture.
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