Jonathan Fox is a professor of development studies at the School of International Service at American University, where he directs the Accountability Research Center. Launched in 2016, ARC is an action-research incubator that partners with public interest groups and policymakers to learn about strategies for change. ARC is funded by private foundations, including the Hewlett, Open Society, Ford, MacArthur, Packard and Mott Foundations.
Before coming to Washington DC in 2013, Jonathan Fox taught in the Department of Latin American and Latino Studies (LALS) at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He joined the UCSC faculty in 1996, served twice as chair of the LALS Department and became Emeritus Professor in 2014. He has held fellowships in Washington, D.C. with the Council on Foreign Relations (1995-1996) and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2004-2005). He previously served on the faculty of the MIT Political Science Department (1988-1995), where he also received his PhD in Political Science (1986).
His research interests include transparency and accountability, democratization, social movements, social and environmental policy, transnational civil society, immigration, race, ethnicity and youth studies. His current research focuses on accountability reforms around the world, including a long-term focus on Mexican rural development policy. His projects address action research, accountability ‘keywords,’ comparative analysis of ‘state-society synergy‘ reforms, accountability ecosystems, ‘the right to stay home‘ and farmer movement oversight of government programs in rural Mexico, as well as analysis of the roles of frontline rural health rights defenders.
He works with a wide range of public interest groups, social organizations, private foundations and public sector organizations. Current non-profit service includes the board of Community Agro-Ecology Network and honorary emeritus board membership of Fundar (Mexico). He also served with the Open Government Partnership as a founding member of the International Expert Panel of its Independent Reporting Mechanism (until 2016). He is an Honorary Associate of the Institute for Development Studies.
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