- Description
- Dr. Richard Ponzio joined The Hague Institute in March 2014 as Head of the Global Governance Program. He is formerly a Senior Adviser in the U.S. State Department’s Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, where he conceptualized and coordinated Secretary Hillary Clinton’s and later John Kerry’s New Silk Road initiative. Richard brings expertise in the areas of global and national democratic institution-building, global political economy, and security sector reform. His policy research interests span the role of international institutions in responding to state fragility, global financial volatility, and population displacement.
