Joyce Ellen Leader (born 1942) is a former

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foreign service officer who served as the American

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from 1999 to 2000. She succeeded Tibor P. Nagy and was succeeded by

R. Barrie Walkley R. Barrie Walkley (born 1944) is a career United States Foreign Service, foreign service officer and the former Special Advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Clinton for the Great Lakes and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. He was a ...

. She is a specialist in African and refugee affairs and is currently a visiting scholar at Georgetown University in the

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, and was formerly a Senior Fellow at The Fund for Peace, where she authored "Rwanda’s Struggle for Democracy and Peace, 1991–1994".

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