Aubrey McCutcheon is the Senior Resident Director for the National Democratic Institute (NDI) in Ethiopia. He is the former Chief of Party for the Protecting Human Rights (PHR) Program of Plan International in Bangladesh and most recently served as NDI’s Senior Resident Director in Nigeria and earlier in Liberia. Prior to his work with NDI and Plan International, McCutcheon served as the Deputy Executive Director and Director of Programs for Global Rights: Partners for Justice at its international headquarters in Washington, D.C. He lived for many years in southern Africa and south Asia, working in Namibia, South Africa, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka. In those locations he worked first with the Ford Foundation, designing support for the human rights and social justice sectors, and later as an independent consultant. Earlier he served as a congressional staff director and as a legislative aide to two Members of Congress in the United States. Aubrey has also served as executive director of the Washington Office on Africa, and director of legislative and political affairs for Sane/Freeze, an arms control and disarmament organization. A native of Detroit, Michigan, McCutcheon earned a Master’s degree in Social Policy, Planning and Participation in Developing Countries from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He also holds a Master’s in Law and Development from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) at the University of London. He had earlier earned a Juris Doctorate from Georgetown University’s Law Center and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Yale University.