Over 30 years’ experience in international development, including 22 with the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in senior-level executive and management positions. Expertise in strategic and operational planning; project development, design, implementation, and monitoring and evaluation and learning; performance management systems; operational and program management assessments. Skilled in leading and managing large decentralized organizations through periods of growth and contraction, and in overseeing management of all major operational functions: policy, strategy, technical, program development, budget, financial, procurement, and administrative. Experience in a variety of development sectors: civil society; rural and agricultural development; infrastructure, such as roads, energy, water/sanitation; housing, and urban and regional development; decentralization/local government management; health and education; municipal infrastructure finance; anti-corruption, transparency, and accountability; and public finance for social sector and economic development, including micro-finance, agricultural cooperatives, privatization, and private provision of social services. Experience working in conflict and post-conflict countries, and in applying development principles to relief and reconstruction efforts. Experienced serving on school and community boards of directors in U.S. and overseas. Work experience in over 30 countries in Asia, Europe, Africa, and Latin America and Caribbean. Speak and write Spanish fluently.Specialties: General management, strategic planning, operations and performance management, project development, donor negotiations, public-private partnerships, crisis stabilization operations, post-conflict and post-disaster relief and reconstruction, monitoring & evaluation, democracy and governance, housing and urban development, regional development, training.
Listed skills include International Development, Program Management, Policy, Economic Development, and 46 others.
