Karl Beck with PCV Tom Chard
Karl Beck
was PC country director in Ukraine from 2000 to 2006. In 1967 Karl began three years of PC teacher training service in a remote part of Lesotho where he often spent several months without seeing another foreigner. Later until 1979, Karl worked for PC in Botswana, Cote d'Ivoire and Togo before joining the State Department where he set up the office that has responsibility for US assistance to refugees in Africa. Beginning in 1981, he represented the US government to the organizations in Geneva that help refugees and migrants and transferred in 1985 to the American Embassy in South Africa to initiate contacts with the people who were leading the revolt against the apartheid government. In 1988-89 he was senior associate for South and Southern Africa at the Carneige Endowment in Washington before joining the International Organization for Migration which he represented to the German and Polish governments and for which he undertook emergency program management assignments during crisis situations in Africa. At PC Ukraine Karl has focused on Volunteer support and project and site development with the goal of offering every volunteer a solid job in a progressive organization. Karl's home is in South Florida.
