Gerardo Berthin is a political scientist with extensive experience in applied democratic governance, policy advice and in research and evaluations. He is an accomplished and seasoned professional with nearly three decades of global experience leading, designing, managing, and evaluating complex organizational strategies, programs, and initiatives to address democratic governance challenges and translate diagnostics into concrete, feasible and measurable solutions. He has worked in the space of democratic governance and reform in over 50 countries in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia, the Pacific, and Central & Eastern Europe.
Both as a practitioner and academic he has acquired extensive experience in the governance reform field, particularly as related to topics such as local governance, decentralization, transparency and accountability, human rights, as well as citizen participation.
He has conducted several governance assessments, to incorporate activities into donor and/or government strategies and is the author and co-author of more than 100 publications, including UNDP national human development reports, books, contributing chapters in books and reports, assessments and evaluations, articles and technical manuals on various democratic governance areas. He has directed academic programs at the graduate and undergraduate level, has taught courses and been a lecturer and instructor in over a dozen universities and academic institutions in the United States, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean.
He has degrees from George Washington University (Washington D.C.), Georgetown University (Washington D.C.), and the University of Chicago. He has also completed the Executive Program for Leaders in Development at the J.F.K School of Government in Harvard University.
He is the Founder and Managing Director of 4DG Strategies, specializing in consulting and advisory services.
This is a conversational blog written and maintained by Gerardo Berthin, a political scientist, who specializes in applied governance policy issues. This personal reflection is not intended to reflect the positions of organizations he is and/or was affiliated with. All pictures unless otherwise noted are attributed to the author.
