Alain Deletroz
Alain Deletroz joined ICG as Vice-President (Operations and Administration) at the end of 2001 after working for 12 years with NGOs in Latin America and the former Soviet Union. Between 1998 and 2001, he was Director of the Open Society Institute in Tashkent, overseeing the Soros Foundation�s 17 programs in Uzbekistan, ten of which were established under his direction. The programs ranged from educational reform to small business development, to women�s rights. Mr Deletroz worked closely with local human rights groups and journalists to push for greater adherence to international standards of political and civil rights in the region. He represented the Open Society Institute at more than 30 conferences on economic development and democratization in Central Asia.
From 1994 to 1998, he was a delegate of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Moscow, where he developed educational programs in International Humanitarian Law in partnership with governments of the newly independent States, including the Russian Federation. In this capacity, he negotiated a cooperation agreement between the ICRC and 61 out of the 89 regions of the Russian Federation. His work also entailed extensive travel in conflict zones throughout the CIS, the Northern and Southern Caucasus and Central Asia. Prior to that, he spent four years working on adult literacy and capacity building projects in the Southern Andes of Peru.
Mr Deletroz holds a Masters in sociology of organizations from the Institut d�Etudes Politiques de Paris, as well as degrees in cultural anthropology and Russian studies from Paris IV and V-Sorbonne, and in Quecha language from the Institut National des Langues Orientales. Fluent in English, French, German, Russian, Portuguese Spanish and Quecha, he has authored and edited numerous books, from a monograph on Carabaya province, to Russian text books and a guide to Quecha grammar. He is married to French poetry critic Cecile Rey-Deletroz with whom he has two sons and two daughters.
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