# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/carl-gershman
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:23:21.487Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/carl-gershman"
name: "Carl Gershman"
slug: "carl-gershman"
description: "Carl Gershman served from 1984 to 2021 as the founding president of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), a private, congressionally-funded, grant-making institution that supports non-governmental groups working for democracy around the world. During his presidency, NED's annual congressional appropriation grew from $18.5 million in 1984 to $300 million a year in 2021, when it funded nearly 2,000 projects in 100 countries."
tagline: "President of the National Endowment for Democracy"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Carl_Gershman_(2024).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1943-07-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           43.56
  momentum:             0.8108108108108109
  historical:           6.558965333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%8D%A1%E5%B0%94%C2%B7%E6%A0%BC%E4%BB%80%E6%9B%BC"
    title: "卡尔·格什曼"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%BA%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كارل غيرشمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%84_%D8%AC%D9%8A%D8%B1%D8%B4%D9%85%D8%A7%D9%86"
    title: "كارل جيرشمان"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gershman"
    title: "Carl Gershman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gershman"
    title: "Carl Gershman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gershman"
    title: "Carl Gershman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Gershman"
    title: "Carl Gershman"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5040214"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump