Resume
International Development, Resilience & Government Affairs Executive
International development and resilience executive with over 25 years of experience across 20+ countries in Africa, Asia, the Balkans, Haiti, and the United States, including service as a U.S. diplomat with USAID. Expertise spans food security, nutrition, social protection, disaster risk management, and multi-sectoral resilience programming, policy, and strategy. Skilled in investment design, program and grants management at scale (up to $200M+), and building high-level partnerships across governments, multilateral institutions, and the private sector. Native English speaker, fluent in French.
Core Competencies
- Multi-sectoral resilience, food security, and nutrition-sensitive and climate-smart agriculture programming
- Social protection and adaptive safety nets, including in conflict and fragile contexts
- Policy and strategy development; investment design and data-driven grantmaking ($500K-$200M+)
- Program, portfolio, and grants/contracts management at scale (teams of 10-150+ staff)
- Government, multilateral, and private-sector partnership development
- Disaster risk management and humanitarian response; gender, youth, and inclusive development
- Digital policy and technology adoption: digital social registries, AI-powered early-warning and climate-monitoring systems, and public-private technology partnerships
- Agentic AI for productivity, policy, and research, including building AI agents with Claude to support research, writing, and business development
Experience
President & Principal Consultant
- Provides strategic advisory services in sustainability and resilience for public and private sector clients, including disaster risk financing and climate-resilient program design.
Foreign Service Officer, Senior Resilience Integration Advisor
Bureau for Resilience, Environment and Food Security
- Led resilience integration across USAID's Global Food Security Strategy, advancing policy, program design, and cross-bureau collaboration in 25+ countries; directed $200M+ in grantmaking and built strategic partnerships, including with Microsoft, to advance technology-enabled early-warning and climate-monitoring systems.
Food Security and Nutrition Policy Officer (embedded advisor to the Government of Malawi)
- Served as an embedded policy advisor to the Government of Malawi, co-chairing an interministerial working group and authoring a policy effectiveness analysis to strengthen integration of food security, nutrition, and resilience into national social protection programs.
Social Protection and Jobs Consultant
- Provided technical and managerial support to the Government of Sudan's national safety net program and designed livelihoods components for a multi-country blended finance social protection program across the Sahel.
Senior Food Systems, Nutrition, and Resilience Consultant
- Led Malawi's National Resilience Strategy as Senior Advisor, catalyzing policy reform and $1B+ in multi-sectoral investment; additional assignments for USAID/Lao PDR, USAID/Senegal, FAO Rome, and Winrock International.
Nutrition-Sensitive Agriculture Advisor (USAID/SPRING)
- Advanced USAID's Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy through technical guidance, evidence-based publications, and program design and supervision across Senegal, Mali, and Ghana.
Senior Specialist, Agriculture and Markets
- Led design teams for USAID and USDA food security, resilience, and value chain programs across Burundi, Burkina Faso, Madagascar, Niger, Tanzania, and Zimbabwe.
Senior Grants Manager
- Managed USAID PEPFAR-funded HIV/AIDS grants and contracts valued at over $25 million annually across Mozambique, Cote d'Ivoire, East Timor, and Sudan.
Program Quality & Growth Advisor / Regional Technical Advisor for Livelihoods and Business Development
- Led regional program quality and design for multi-sectoral resilience, food security, and livelihoods programs across nine Southern Africa countries, and coordinated resource mobilization during the regional food crisis response.
Deputy Office Director (Head of Programming)
- Ensured program quality and led a team of 60+ technical staff managing a $10M+ multi-sectoral portfolio spanning food security, nutrition, disaster response, and HIV/AIDS awareness.
Office Director, Gujarat Earthquake Rehabilitation
- Led an 80-person team managing an $8M+ annual post-earthquake recovery program, overseeing construction of over 2,600 earthquake-resistant homes and community infrastructure.
Program Manager, Education and Civil Society
- Managed a $2M USAID-funded post-war recovery program strengthening civil society and education systems, and established Montenegro's first Parent Council Association.
International Development Fellow
- Managed and mobilized resources for agriculture and gender/women's empowerment projects, and developed CRS Tanzania's partnership strategy.
Business Advisor
- Advised on the USAID Commercial Agriculture Promotion Project, conducting market research and business case studies for smallholder export enterprises.
Global Logistics Specialist
- Coordinated international logistics and distribution operations supporting Microsoft's global product supply chain.
Inside Sales Representative
- Supported customer sales and service operations early in Microsoft's growth.
Education
Monterey Institute of International Studies
MPA in International Management | Public Administration, Development Economics, Environment, Agribusiness, French Translation
Gonzaga University
BA in French Literature, Minor in Piano Performance | Study Abroad, Paris, France
Awards and Certifications
- 7 USAID Honor Awards for Management and Leadership over five consecutive years
- U.S. Government Federal Acquisition Certification for Contracting Officer's Representative, Level II
- Board Member and Treasurer, Musical Experiences, Seattle, WA, 2009–2016
Select Publications
- Towards an Integrated Social Registry in Sudan, The World Bank, 2019
- Policy Effectiveness: Food Security & Nutrition in Malawi's Social Protection Strategy, FAO/EU, 2020
- Global Food Security Strategy Resilience & Social Protection Guidance Briefs, USAID, 2022
- National Resilience Strategy, Government of Malawi, 2018
- USAID NURTURE Midline Qualitative Analysis, USAID Laos PDR, 2019
- USAID Multi-Sectoral Nutrition Strategy Technical Guidance Brief: Income and Women's Empowerment Pathways to Nutrition through Agriculture, USAID/SPRING, 2017
- Integrating Nutrition into Agricultural Information Systems in Northern Ghana, USAID/SPRING, 2017
Languages
English (native); French (Advanced Proficiency); Portuguese (beginner)