Dr. Joseph Siegle is the Director of Research at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies in Washington, D.C. His research interests include understanding the role of democratic governance in advancing security and development, security trends in Africa, stabilizing fragile states, democratic transitions, and strengthening institutions of democratic accountability. He has written widely for leading policy journals and newspapers and is a regular media analyst.
Prior to joining the Africa Center, he was a Douglas Dillon Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland’s Center for International and Security Studies, and a senior advisor for democratic governance at DAI. For more than a decade, he served in various field capacities throughout Africa as well as in Asia and the Balkans with the international NGO, World Vision, and as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
