Joshua Marks manages the central Africa program for the National Endowment for Democracy (Washington, DC), where he is responsible for democracy and governance programs in eight countries. Previously a consultant for Oxfam and Small Arms Survey in the Great Lakes Region, Josh has worked on security and human rights issues in eastern DRC, where he lived in 2004-05. He’s worked for a local NGO in DRC and was a Faculty Associate at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (Washington, DC). He has published articles or reports in African Security Review, and for Oxfam and Small Arms Survey, among others. A graduate of Yale University and Johns Hopkins University-SAIS, Josh speaks English, French, Swahili, and some Portuguese.