-Support for the implementation of five-year USAID-funded program designed to increase electricity availability and access to households in Southern Africa by facilitating transactions and strengthening the environment for public and private sector investments in the power sector.-Tasked with providing technical assistance under subcontract to Deloitte in the areas of strategic communication and knowledge management.

Business & Finance Consulting (BFC) is a German/Swiss development finance consultancy firm specialized in microfinance consulting and research in emerging markets. *Microfinance advisory and analysis with a focus on agricultural / rural finance delivery channels *Strategic consulting, project management, and analytical research for clients including KFW, European Fund for Southeast Europe, EBRD.

•Analyze loan, guarantee, and equity investment proposals worth up to €9 billion annually in energy, infrastructure, financial institutions, and property sectors. •Help achieve U.S. Government support for $10 billion capital increase approved in May 2010.•Advise U.S. Director on EBRD’s response to the global financial crisis and advocate U.S. policy objectives in CIS/Eastern Europe in concert with U.S. Treasury and State Department.

•Assist Resident Country Director for Millenium Challenge Corporation in oversight of energy rehabilitation and road projects.•Administer $225,000 Democracy Commission Grants Program for Public Affairs Section of U.S. Embassy.

•Conduct primary research on ethnic minority integration processes in cooperation with European Center for Minority Issues, presidential administration, government officials, and community leaders.•Contribute to draft concept paper on national minorities in collaboration with Georgian Parliamentary Committee on Human Rights and Civic Integration.