Edwin P. McClain, Ph.D., spent three decades with the International Organization for Migration — as Chief of Mission in Baghdad during the Gulf Emergency, in the former Yugoslavia through the Bosnian crisis, and in Moscow, where he led large-scale resettlement and anti-trafficking work. He later served as IOM's Regional Representative for East and Central Africa. Before IOM, he worked on grassroots development with the United Nations Development Programme in Kuala Lumpur. He holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from Ohio State University and has taught most recently at California State University, Chico. Confidence of Memory is his memoir.