Jendayi Frazer is President and CEO of 50 Ventures LLC., a strategic advising and investment consultant company focussed on Africa. She is also the Duignan Distinguished Visiting Fellow at Hoover Institution at Stanford University, and Adjunct Senior Fellow for Africa Studies at the Council on Foreign Relations.

She was a Distinguished Public Service Professor at Carnegie Mellon University from 2009 to 2014, where she was on the faculty of Heinz College’s School of Public Policy and Management. She was also an Assistant Professor at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, and the Graduate School of International Studies, University of Denver. Her research focuses on strengthening regional security cooperation and economic and political integration in Africa. The author of and contributor to a number of articles, journals, and books, she is the co-editor of Preventing Electoral Violence in Africa (2011).

Frazer received her BA in political science (with honors) and African and Afro-American studies (with distinction), MAs in international policy studies and international development education, and PhD in political science, all from Stanford University.

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