Ted Piccone Ted Piccone is a senior fellow and deputy director for Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution. A foreign policy and legal expert on issues of democracy, human rights, international organizations and U.S.-Latin American affairs, Mr. Piccone has over 25 years experience in government, law and research. Mr. Piccone also serves as an advisor to the Club of Madrid, an association of over 70 former heads of state and government engaged in efforts to strengthen democracy around the world, and previously served as its Washington office director. From 2001-2008, Mr. Piccone was the executive director and co-founder of the Democracy Coalition Project (DCP), a research and advocacy organization working to promote international cooperation for democracy and human rights around the world. Mr. Piccone served eight years as a senior foreign policy advisor in the Clinton Administration. He was the associate director of the Secretary of State’s policy planning staff (1998-2001), director for Inter-American Affairs at the National Security Council (1996-98), and policy advisor in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1993-1996). Mr. Piccone also served as counsel for the United Nations Truth Commission in El Salvador (1992-93) and as press secretary to U.S. Rep. Bob Edgar (1985-87). Mr. Piccone has appeared in such media outlets as BBC TV, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, International Herald Tribune, Al Jazeera TV, Huffington Post, The Daily Beast, PBS’ Frontline/World, and Agence France Presse. He has written and published articles on U.S.-Latin American relations, international organizations, and human rights and democracy promotion policy. His most recent publications include: Catalysts for Change: How the UN’s Independent Experts Promote Human Rights (Brookings Institution Press 2012); “Rising Democracies and the Arab Awakening: Implications for Global Democracy and Human Rights” (Foreign Policy at Brookings, January 2012); “The Contribution of the UN’s Special Procedures to National Level Implementation of Human Rights Norms,” The International Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 15 No. 2 (Feb. 2011); “Do New Democracies Support Democracy? The Multilateral Dimension,” Journal of Democracy, Vol. 22, No. 4 (October 2011); Catalysts for Rights: The Unique Contribution of the U.N.’s Independent Experts on Human Rights (Foreign Policy at Brookings, October 2010); Shifting the Balance: Obama and the Americas (eds. Lowenthal, Piccone and Whitehead, Brookings Institution Press 2010, also available in Spanish and Portuguese); The Obama Administration and the Americas: Agenda for Change (eds. Lowenthal, Piccone and Whitehead, Brookings Institution Press 2009); Strategies for Democratic Change: Assessing the Global Response (eds. Ted Piccone and Richard Youngs, Democracy Coalition Project/FRIDE 2006); “International Mechanisms to Protect Democracy,” in | 1775 Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Washington, DC 20036 | 202.797.6000 | fax 202.797.6004 | brookings.edu Protecting Democracy: International Responses (eds. Morton H. Halperin and Mirna Galic, Lexington Books, 2004); and Regime Change by the Book: Constitutional Tools to Preserve Democracy (Democracy Coalition Project 2004). He and Robert Herman co-edited Defending Democracy: A Global Survey of Foreign Policy Trends (Democracy Coalition Project 2002), a first-ever assessment of democracy promotion policies of 40 governments around the world. Mr. Piccone received a law degree from Columbia University, where he was editor-in-chief of the Columbia Human Rights Law Review and The Jailhouse Lawyer’s Manual. At Columbia, Mr. Piccone was a Harlan Fiske Stone scholar, received a Parker School Certificate in International and Comparative Law, was awarded an International Human Rights Fellowship in Santiago, Chile (1988), and was appointed an international fellow (1990). He received a B.A. in history magna cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania (1984) and won the prize for best thesis in American history. He and his wife, Susan Gibbs, reside in Washington with their three children. .