Larry Diamond is the founding co-editor of the Journal of Democracy and a senior consultant for the NED’s International Forum for Democratic Studies. He is also a senior fellow at the Hoover Institution and a professor at Stanford University. He served as Director, and now as senior fellow, at the Stanford University Center for Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, where he continues to lead its programs on Arab Reform and Democracy in Taiwan. Diamond has edited or co-edited more than 35 books on democracy.