Julius Earl Coles[1] (born 1942) is the former President of Africare and is Director of Morehouse College's Andrew Young Center for International Affairs.
Julius E. Coles is the former President of Africare and since 2009 has served as Director of Morehouse College's Andrew Young Center for International Affairs, a position he previously held from 1997 to 2002.
Most of Mr. Coles' career of some 28 years in the foreign service has been spent as a senior official with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).
While with USAID, Mr. Coles was Mission Director in Swaziland and Senegal and served in Vietnam, Morocco, Liberia, Nepal, and Washington, DC.
In addition, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Public Administration, Sigma Pi Phi fraternity, Omega Psi Phi fraternity, Rotary Club of Atlanta, Council on Foreign Relations, the Bretton Woods Committee and has been appointed as a member of the UNESCO International Commission on the Gorée Memorial.