Doug Brooks is President of the International Peace Operations Association (IPOA), a nongovernmental, nonprofit, nonpartisan association of service companies dedicated to improving international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, humanitarian rescue, stabilization efforts and disaster relief through greater privatization. He is a specialist on private sector capabilities and African security issues and has written extensively on the regulation and constructive utilization of the private sector for international peacekeeping and humanitarian missions.
Mr Brooks has testified before the U.S. Congress, South African Parliament and to UN functions. He has appeared on countless TV and radio programs including al Jazeera, the BBC, CBS News, NBC News, Fox News, CNN International, National Public Radio, the Diane Rehm show, Voice of America, SABC in South Africa, Democracy Now! and the Lehrer News Hour. He has lectured at numerous universities and colleges, including Georgetown University, the South African Defense College, the Inter-American Defense College at Ft. McNair and the Military Academy at West Point.
Mr Brooks is originally from Indiana and has a BA in History from Indiana University, an MA in History from Baylor University, with additional doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs, University of Pittsburgh. He has worked as a teacher in Kambuzuma Township in Harare, Zimbabwe, at the Library of Congress, the National Archives, the Institute of International Education, the International Management Development Institute in Pittsburgh and was an academic fellow at the South African Institute for International Affairs in 1999-2000.
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