Jonathan Dörnhofer is the Manager at the Africa Practice at McLarty Associates. He joined McLarty in 2022 and is based in Washington, D.C. Before joining McLarty, Jonathan worked on East Africa programs at the International Republican Institute (IRI), where he supported election observations in Kenya and Somaliland, serving as an accredited international observer in both elections. He has also worked as a policy researcher at the Parliament in Botswana, conducting feasibility studies for a public health insurance scheme and for a minimum wage bill. He began his career teaching history and tutoring college applicants at international schools in Ghana, Kenya, and Zimbabwe. His academic research has centered on rural economic subsystems and on the political economy of development policy. He has conducted field research in Tanzania, Rwanda, and South Africa, and his paper “Between Reconciliation and Retribution: How Legislative Actions Inform the Success or Failure of Post-Liberation Economic Reform in Zimbabwe, Namibia, and South Africa” won Georgetown University’s 2018 Africa Prize. He has spoken on panels related to Africa at Yale University, and his work has been published by Democracy Speaks and The Geopolitical Monitor. Jonathan received a BS in International Politics from Georgetown University and an MA in African Studies from Yale University. He is a native German speaker and is fluent in Afrikaans and French.