George Brown
FFI President
Dr. George T. Brown, Jr., returns to Friendship Force International after serving as Executive Director of the Georgia Council for International Visitors (GCIV). George Brown has 25 years experience working with international programs in Atlanta. Prior to GCIV he was Executive Director of the Friendship Force. He was instrumental in establishing the Atlanta-Tbilisi Sister City connection and led the Georgia-to-Georgia citizen exchange to Tbilisi in April 1990.
George Brown also served as Director of the Global Awareness Program for Agnes Scott College and as Executive Director of Villa International Atlanta. In 1996 he was project manager for the AT&T Family-to-Family program that provided home-stay programs for 2,500 family members of the Olympic athletes.
In addition to working with international visitors to the United States, Brown has traveled extensively to West and East Europe, Russia, the Middle East, East Asia, Australia and New Zealand. He has organized and led student and adult delegations to various international destinations.
Before moving to Atlanta in 1978, George Brown was a professor of international relations at Capital University in Columbus, Ohio, and before that he served as a foreign liaison officer in the U.S. Army. He received his Ph.D. in international relations from the University of Virginia. George was raised in Korea as the son of Presbyterian missionaries. He is married and has four children and three grandchildren. He is active in community affairs and currently serves as an elder at Central Presbyterian Church in Atlanta.
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