Center Staff

Dr. Francis Lethem is Director and Professor of the Practice at Duke University's Center for International Development (DCID). He is also Co-Director of the Duke-UNC Rotary program in Peace and Conflict Resolution. His primary professional interests are in the areas of institutional design in relation with sustainable development, the design and management of development projects, project design for conflict prevention, and human resources development including capacity building in developing and transition countries. Before joining Duke in 1994, Dr. Lethem worked for about 30 years at the World Bank mostly in Africa and Latin America and both in operations (human resources development and institutional development), and as a policy and projects adviser. He obtained his doctorate in economics from Neuchatel University (Switzerland) in 1967 and is the co-author of World Bank Staff Working Papers on organization design, the consideration of human factors in development work, and the management of technical assistance. In 2006, he was named a Paul Harris Fellow by Rotary International.

Susan Carroll, Assistant Director of the Duke-UNC Rotary Center, joined the Duke-UNC Rotary Center as Coordinator in May 2005. She has more than 20 years experience in the field of international humanitarian assistance, principally working for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. She has worked on large-scale refugee operations in Sudan, Ethiopia, Malawi, Turkey, Hong Kong and Thailand. In 1991, Susan was the first UN Liaison Officer with allied forces in Incirlik, Turkey, working with military personnel on the protection and assistance of Kurdish refugees. She also coordinated two UNHCR training programs, one focusing on gender analysis of refugee populations, and the other on management of emergencies. Susan received her bachelor’s degree in geology from Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut and has done graduate studies at the Institut Universitaire des Hautes Etudes Internationales in Geneva.

Jim Peacock is Kenan Professor of Anthropology at UNC Chapel Hill and Co-Director of the Duke-UNC Rotary Center. Recent honors include being named a New Century Scholar through the Fulbright Program and recipient of the Boas Award of the American Anthropological Association of which he was president. He has written numerous books including The Anthropological Lens from Cambridge University Press (revised edition, 2001), Identity Matters: Ethnic and Sectarian Conflict (Oxford and New York: Berghahn) and Grouded Globalism: How the U.S. South Embraces the World (Athens: University of Georgia). Dr. Peacock previously served as Director of the University Center for International Studies at UNC. He received his Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University and has done fieldwork in Southeast Asia and in the United States.