https://www.debates.org/about-cpd/commission-leadership/
Commission Leadership
Co-Chairs
Frank J. Fahrenkopf, Jr.
Dorothy S. Ridings
Kenneth Wollack
Honorary Co-Chairs
Gerald R. Ford*
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan*
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Co-Chair Emeritus
Paul G. Kirk, Jr.
Board of Directors
John C. Danforth
Charles Gibson
John Griffen
Yvonne Hao
Jane Harman
Antonia Hernandez
Reverend John I. Jenkins
Newton N. Minow
Richard D. Parsons
Olympia Snowe
Executive Director
Janet H. Brown
* Deceased
https://www.debates.org/about-cpd/
EXCERPT
Further, the CPD provides technical assistance to emerging democracies and others interested in establishing debate traditions in their countries. In recent years, the staff worked with groups from Bosnia, Burundi, Colombia, Côte dIvoire, Ghana, Haiti, Jamaica, Lebanon, Niger, Nigeria, Peru, Romania, Trinidad and Tobago, Uganda, and the Ukraine, among others.
Why would anyone listen to this group of has-been clowns.