Debra Liang-Fenton
Program Officer, Research and Studies Program
(September 1998 - September 2002)

Areas of Specialization
Human Rights and democratization

Background
Debra Liang-Fenton is a human rights and democratization specialist in the Institute's Research and Studies Program where she manages the Institute's Human Rights Implementation project. The project comprises a distinguished working group that critically analyzes case studies from around the world to distill lessons learned from the successes and failures of past U.S. human rights policies. Before joining the Institute, Liang-Fenton was a project officer with the International Forum for Democratic Studies at the National Endowment for Democracy. She also served as editor of the Journal of Democracy and has lived and traveled extensively throughout Asia.

Liang-Fenton is the author of several articles and reports on international drug control and the promotion of human rights including the Institute special report Promoting Human Rights in the Pursuit of Peace: Assessing 20 Years of U.S. Human Rights Policy. Liang-Fenton holds a B.A. in political science from Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., and an M.A. in politics with an emphasis on Southeast Asia from the University of London's School of Oriental and African Studies.

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