Julius E. Coles
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Julius E. Coles is the President of Africare. Before assuming this position, he was the Director of Morehouse College’s Andrew Young Center for International Affairs from 1997 - 2002. He served as the Director of Howard University’s Ralph J. Bunche International Affairs Center from 1994 - 1997.
Most of his career of some twenty-eight years in the foreign service has been spent as a senior official with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). While with USAID, He was Mission Director in Swaziland and Senegal and served in Vietnam, Morocco, Liberia, Nepal and Washington, D.C.
He received a B.A. from Morehouse College (1964) and a Masters of Public Affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (1966). He has also studied at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, the U.S. Department of State Foreign Institute’s Senior Seminar, the Federal Executive Institute and Institut de Français.
He retired from the U.S. Government’s Foreign Service in 1994 with the rank of Career Minister. He received numerous awards including the Distinguished Career Service Award (1995), the Presidential Meritorious Service Award (1983-1986), and was decorated by President Abdou Diouf of Senegal as Commander in the Order of Lion (1994).
He is a member of the Boards of The Mountain Institute, InterAction, L’Alliance Française de Washington, DC, Andrew Young Center for International Affairs at Morehouse College and Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School. In addition, he was elected as a member of the Sigma Pi Phi Fraternity, Rotary Club of Atlanta, Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee and has been appointed as a member of the UNESCO International Commission on the Gorée Memorial.
