Whitney Foster
Whitney Foster has spent 40 years working on issues of economic and social development in the Middle East and Africa. He started his career as a Peace Corps Volunteer training teachers in Nigeria (1964-1966), received a Masters in African Studies from UCLA in 1968 and became a Peace Corps Administrator (Ghana 1968-'71, Morocco 1971-'73). In 1973 Foster joined the United Nations Development Program working successively in Tunisia, Egypt, Djibouti, the 2 Yemens, and in Juba in Southern Sudan. In 1982 his work with the United Nations brought him to the World Bank, where he became Resident Representative in Rwanda/Burundi, and then Niger. He also served as Country Coordinator for Burkina Faso. In 1996 he returned to Washington DC, working on institutional reform issues in the francophone countries of West Africa until his retirement in March of 2000. He was named as Director and Vice President of the International Conservation and Education Fund in October of 2004.
