Julius E. Coles
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Julius E. Coles (born 1942) is the President of Africare. He has spent over four decades engaged in international development work in Africa or for the benefit of African countries.
[edit] Biography
Julius E. Coles is the President of Africare. Before assuming this position, he was the Director of Morehouse College’s Andrew Young Center for International Affairs from 1997-2002. He serves as the Director of Howard University’s Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center from 1994-1997. Most of Mr. Coles’ career of some 28 years in the foreign service has been spent as a senior official with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). While with USAID, Mr. Coles was Mission Director in Swaziland and Senegal and served in Vietnam, Morocco, Liberia, Nepal, and Washington, DC. He received a B.A. from Morehouse College (1964) and a Master’s of Public Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (1996). He has also studied at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, the U.S. Department of State Foreign Institute’s Senior Seminar, the Federal Executive Institute, and Institut de Francais. Mr. Coles retired from the U.S. Government Foreign Service in 1994 with the rank of Career Minister.
[edit] Awards and Associations
Coles received numerous awards including the Distinguished Career Service Award (1995), the Presidential Meritorious Service Award (1983-1986), and was decorated by President Abdou Diouf of Senegal as Commander in the Order of Lion (1994).
He is a member of the boards of The Mountain Institute, InterAction, L’Alliance Française de Washington, DC, Andrew Young Center for International Affairs at Morehouse College and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. In addition, he was elected as a member of the Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, Rotary Club of Atlanta, Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee and has been appointed as a member of the UNESCO International Commission on the Gorée Memorial.
[edit] References
- Africare Welcomes As Its New President, Julius E. Coles
- Coles, Julius E. Monday, August 8, 2005. "Bush's Role in Africa". Washington Post, Page A15.
