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Gary Bland, PhD, director of the Center for Democratic Governance at RTI, has 15 years of experience examining democracy and governance in the developing world. Dr. Bland also serves as a lead technical advisor, combining extensive academic, policy, and programmatic expertise in democratic institutional development with a focus on decentralization and subnational reform. He has closely examined and written about legislative process, electoral systems, and democratic transitions. Dr. Bland was a private consultant on decentralization and local government in Latin America with the Woodrow Wilson Center, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the World Bank. From 1998-2001, he was a Democracy Fellow in the Global Bureau�s Center for Democracy and Governance at USAID, where he served as the lead technical advisor for decentralization and local government programming, worked on legislative strengthening and anti-corruption programming, provided technical assistance, and conducted training courses. A recipient of grants and participant in numerous conferences, Dr. Bland has written extensively on decentralization and local governance. | 