Larry Garber

Board Member, Finance Committee, Executive Committee

Larry Garber is an independent consultant with more than 35 years of experience working on issues relating to international development, democratic elections and human rights.  He has served on the Board of Friends of Givat Haviva since 2017, and is a member of FOGH’s Executive Committee and chairs the Finance Committee.

Larry was a senior official with the US Agency for International Development (USAID) for 15 years, including five years as mission director for USAID/West Bank-Gaza (1999-2004).  From 2004-2009, he was the Chief Executive Officer at the New Israel Fund and, more recently, has worked as an adviser to The Carter Center and other non-governmental organizations.  He has observed elections in more than 30 countries, most recently the Zimbabwe harmonized elections in 2018 and the Palestinian municipal elections in 2022.

Larry taught for two years at the National Defense University’s Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy and currently teaches as an adjunct faculty at George Washington and Arizona State Universities.  He has published on a wide range of subjects, including advancing Palestinian development and democracy, promoting organizational reforms at USAID, observing elections in the United States and overseas, and preventing election violence.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the National Task Force on Election Crises, and , in addition to FOGH, he sits the Board of Election Reformers Network and on the Advisory Council of PalTechUS.  

Links to Larry's articles:

A Message to Peace-seeking Israelis and Palestinians: You Are on Your Own