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George Biddle

George Biddle is the Senior Vice President of the International Rescue Committee (IRC), the leading nonsectarian, voluntary organization providing relief, protection and resettlement services for refugees and victims of oppression and violent conflict. Before joining the IRC, he was the Vice President of the International Crisis Group from 1997 to 1999. Prior to that, Mr. Biddle was President of the Institute for Central American Studies, an organization he founded in 1989 to assist post-cold war Central America in its transition from violent conflict to peace and democracy. He has also worked at the Institute for East West Studies in New York. He sits on several non-profit boards, holds an AB degree from Harvard and an MA in International Relations from Johns Hopkins, and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was a member of the Board of the IRC from 1992 to 1999.