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David Stillman, Ph.D., Board Member

David Stillman has extensive experience in policy formulation, negotiation, consultation, program management, and research and writing in various fields of international cooperation for economic and social development. His specialties include human security issues, peace-building, multi-stakeholder collaboration, human rights, gender and United Nations system development cooperation.

Stillman is the creator and general manager of the United Nations Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development, which has been endorsed as an ad-hoc initiative of the UN Economic and Social Council. Madagascar and the Dominican Republic are its pilot countries. The Alliance brings together government, business, NGOs, universities and United Nations entities to encourage development and investments that improve the lives of rural people.

Stillman has long been involved with the UN system affairs. From 1974 to 2004 he worked in the United Nations Secretariat. As a Senior Officer in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, he was a member of the team that supports the deliberations of the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly. Previously, he was an Advisor in the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Development Support and Management Services. In the mid 1980s he served as Assistant Resident Representative in Islamabad, Pakistan with the UN Development Program, responsible chiefly for agricultural programs. Before joining the UN, he worked in Togo, Ghana and Kenya.

Stillman is president of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) Westchester Chapter, a member of the board of the New York State Southern Division of UNA-USA, and an honorary board member of the North Carolina-based American Freedom Association (AFA). Stillman and his wife, Jeanne, are co-principals of Strategies for Development, Inc., a consulting firm which provides research, writing, resource development, communications and other management consulting services to local and international organizations.

Stillman holds a BA from the School of International Service of the American University and an MA and PhD in political science from Duke University. He was a Research Student at the University of Ghana at Legon and Research Associate at the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He has traveled extensively internationally and has participated in numerous United Nations meetings in Europe. He speaks English and French and has studied several other languages.

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