Todd Wassel Email & Phone Number

Bangkok, Thailand

Laos

Timor-Leste

• Senior most staff representing The Asia Foundation in Timor-Leste
• Lead a large office implementing USD $6-8 million in projects per year with 70 international and local staff
• Strategic leadership across program areas including conflict and policing, tourism, ending violence against women, public policy, early childhood education, land use planning, government accountability, local.

Timor-Leste

• Senior-level leadership representing TAF in Timor-Leste and Acting Country Representative when CR is out of the country.
• Extensive portfolio covering governance, public policy, conflict, and economic diversification programs.
• Successfully raising over $7M in funding from variety of donors such as the US, New Zealand, Australia and the Netherlands for community security, land policy, governance and tourism programing.
• Provide leadership to finance, operations, administration… Show more
• Provide leadership to finance, operations, administration and human resources for the office of 72 staff members and annual budget of over USD $7M. Show less

Timor-Leste

• Successful USAID Chief of Party for a $5M Community Policing Program.
• Catalyzed a small community security project into a full-fledged security and safety program with multiple sources of funding and a recognized leader in customary justices, community security and community policing.
• Delivery of all projects under budget allowing for increased geographic scope of activities resulting in government buy-in and increased… Show more
• Delivery of all projects under budget allowing for increased geographic scope of activities resulting in government buy-in and increased funding from donors by $1.7M.
• Developed and designed the 2013 Community Police Perception Survey using digital data collection and online data visualization for 3500 respondents. Show less

Kosovo

• Development of a rural tourism strategy for the 10-year Municipal Development Plan in the southern multi-ethnic municipality of Dragash.
• Served as an advisor to the United Nations Resident Coordinator on peacebuilding and conflict mitigation strategies in Northern Kosovo.
• Final evaluation of the 3 year, $4 million joint UN peacebuilding program in Mitrovica, Kosovo.

Mitrovica, Kosovo

• Coordination and management of a joint UN ($4 million) program focused on Good Governance, Peacebuilding and Urban Service Delivery involving UNDP, UNICEF, UNFPA, WHO and OHCHR
• Ensured timely and complete implementation of all deliverables including monitoring and evaluation, and reporting
• Designed the second phase ($14 million), 4-year peacebuilding strategy for 5 UN agencies in Northern Kosovo

Sri Lanka/Timor-Leste

• Program assessment and design for a USAID post-conflict land and property project in Sri Lanka
• Designed and led a study trip for 13 Sri Lankan high level government officials to Timor-Leste on post-conflict land administration and peacebuilding
• Coordinator and technical advisor for a land dispute and access to justice report for ARD in Eastern Sri LankaPrevious Career role held:Country Director, Sri Lanka. Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions (COHRE)

Masters Of Arts In Law And Diplomacy, Development, International Conflict Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Asian Studies And Comparative Religions