Ambassador Mark Green (ret.) serves as the president, director, and CEO of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Prior to joining the Wilson Center, Green served as executive director of the McCain Institute and administrator of the US Agency for International Development (USAID).

Prior to USAID, he served as president of the International Republican Institute, president and CEO of the Initiative for Global Development, and senior director at the US Global Leadership Coalition. Green served as the US ambassador to Tanzania from mid-2007 to early 2009. Before that, he served four terms in the US House of Representatives representing Wisconsin’s 8th District.

Green was the longest-serving member of the board of directors of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. He has also served on the Human Freedom Advisory Council for the Bush Institute and the Board of the Consensus for Development Reform. He holds a law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire.

Green was an event speaker at the Dialogue.