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Howard F. Jeter has served as a director since April 2005. Ambassador Jeter retired with the rank of Career Minister from the State Department in 2003 after a 27-year career in the Foreign Service. He is the immediate past US Ambassador to Nigeria. He also served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, State Department Director for West Africa, President Clinton's Special Envoy for Liberia, and Ambassador to Botswana. Ambassador Jeter was Deputy Chief of Mission and later Charge d'Affaires in Lesotho and Namibia. He also had multi-year assignments in Tanzania and Mozambique. He earned his Bachelor of Arts Degree, with Honors, from Morehouse College and Masters Degrees in International Relations, Comparative Politics, and African Studies from Columbia University and UCLA. He is currently the Executive Vice President of GoodWorks International, an international consulting and business advisory group, Chairman of the Advisory Committee on Africa, US Export - Import Bank and a board member of Africare and Africa Action. | 