Paul A. Belford, MA
Biography

A 1965 graduate of Boston College, Paul Belford spent an academic year teaching Economics at Al-Hikma University in Baghdad, Iraq, before earning a master’s degree in Economics at Fordham University (New York, NY) in 1967. Relocating to Washington, DC in 1968, he spent four years with the CIA, including 18 months in Saigon. In 1972, he joined the U. S. Treasury Department where he spent six years working on international trade and financial affairs, including a one-year tour as the Financial Attache with the American Embassy in Saigon.

Leaving Treasury in 1978, he spent 18 months at the Overseas Private Investment Corporation as Director, Economic Impact Analysis before joining the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association in Washington DC as Director of International Organization Affairs in 1979. In 1989 he launched the Association Executive Resources Group, an executive search firm from which he joined JDG Associates in 1992 as head of its association/non-profit search practice, retiring in 2024.

Other writing credits include The Swampoodle Trilogy, Saigon Passage, Association CEO Handbook, and Notes from a Passage.