Technical Staff

Our professional network worldwide is comprised of 1,400 development professionals, the majority of whom are from the “host” country, helping us to build local capacity and foster sustainability. Eighty percent of MSI’s core technical work is performed by a group of 100 in-house professionals. Staff and associates are highly proficient in MSI’s tools, techniques, approaches and underlying philosophy prior to embarking on an assignment of any size or scope.

Strategic Management & Performance Improvement

  • Thomas Johnson

    With more than 25 years of experience as a USAID Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Johnson leads the firm’s Strategic Management and Performance Improvement practice area. As the Deputy Director in USAID’s Policy, Planning and Learning Bureau in the Office of Strategic Planning and Programs, he led the revitalization of strategic planning and project design. He participated in a team established by the USAID Administrator to lead the Agency’s involvement in the Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review and the Presidential Policy Directive on Global Development, highlighting the importance of development in U.S. foreign policy. He was the education and youth team leader in the USAID/West Bank and Gaza, where he forged I.T. public-private partnerships with Cisco, Microsoft, Intel, IBM and Google. Between 2005-2007, he was the Program Officer in Kabul, Afghanistan responsible for a $2 billion portfolio. He also led democracy and governance offices in Colombia and Mozambique, was the Agency’s Democracy Advisor, and a Project Development Officer at two posts. He received his master’s in Urban Design from Harvard University.

  • Lisa Slifer-Mbacke

    Ms. Slifer-Mbacke has more than 15 years of experience leading complex international technical assistance projects with multiple subcontractors, field offices and stakeholders. She has served as Chief of Party in Nigeria for USAID and worked as the Senior Capacity-Development Adviser to the West Africa Regional Mission. She also led the first MCC-funded Threshold Country Program in Burkina Faso. She has managed various contract mechanisms, including two complex global technical assistance IDIQs on child labor, forced labor and trafficking research and evaluation. She serves as MSI’s Practice Area Leader for Strategic Management and Performance Improvement and Technical Manager of the USAID-funded Africa NGO Sustainability Index, providing technical support to evaluation services, local capacity-building and democracy and governance activities. She holds a master’s in International Communications from American University’s School for International Service.

  • Doug Baker

    Mr. Baker has more than 20 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation and environment and natural resources. He was most recently Director of the M&E Division of the USAID/Egypt Education Reform Program and Chief of Party for the USAID Monitoring, Verification, and Evaluation Unit of the Egyptian Environmental Policy Program. He has extensive experience in biodiversity conservation and other environmental issues, from policy to field levels – principally in Latin America and the Middle East. He helped write the first State of the Environment report for East Timor and a review of environmental and economic indicators for Africa for USAID. Doug was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Brazil and holds a master’s in Development Economics from University of Connecticut and in Latin American Studies from Yale University.

  • Ramon Balestino

    Mr. Balestino has more than 20 years of experience in strengthening the capacity of governments, development organizations and communities. He has worked to enhance organizations’ approaches, systems and policies to ‘manage for results’ and has delivered trainings and facilitated events with numerous development organizations, including USAID, IDB, UNDP, World Bank, MCC and FEMA. He has designed and managed projects for youth workforce, microfinance and enterprise development, food security, combating child labor and human rights education. He previously served as an associate director for the Peace Corps. Fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, he holds a master’s in International Economic Development from California State University – Sacramento.

  • Larry Beyna

    Mr. Beyna has more than 30 years of experience in consulting and training for U.S. Government and international development agencies. His areas of expertise include strategic planning and management, program and project design, monitoring and evaluation and policy analysis. He has worked in domestic and international health, education, environment and natural resource management, democracy and governance, social services and economic development. He has worked in over 35 countries worldwide and served four years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya. Mr. Beyna previously worked at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Education and James Bell Associates, Inc. His countries of expertise include Egypt, the Philippines and Russia.

  • Keith Brown

    Mr. Brown has designed organizational strategic planning and performance measurement systems for USAID, the Department of Labor, the International Labor Organization and the WFP. He has extensive technical expertise in designing and conducting evaluations, data collection methods and statistical analysis. He developed a range of products for client organizations that support the installation of planning and management systems, including policies and procedures, training materials, and analytic instruments. He holds a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University and a bachelor’s in government and economics from St. Lawrence University.

  • David Callihan

    David Callihan has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of strategic planning, program design. He improved program performance and conducted program evaluations with a special focus on improving natural resource management programs. Currently he works on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife MOBIS contract and the Environmental Policy and Institutional Strengthening IQC with USAID. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Party for a USAID/Namibia community-based natural resource management project and as Director of the US-Asia Environmental Partnership. David holds a master’s in Administration and a bachelor’s in Organizational Analysis for Management.

  • Lawrence Cooley

    Mr. Cooley founded MSI in 1981. He is a specialist in strategic management, public sector performance and organizational development. He has served as an advisor to cabinet officials in federal agencies and in more than a dozen countries. For 15 years, he was the Chairperson of the American Society of Public Administration’s Development Management Network and received its National Award for Training Excellence. He directed USAID’s Implementing Policy Change program that assisted worldwide governments and oversaw a project rebuilding Iraqi ministries’ public administration. He previously worked at the World Bank, UNPD and as a Peace Corps volunteer. He holds a master’s in economics from Columbia University, MPA in public policy from Princeton and M. Phil. in management from the U.K.’s Cranfield School of Management.

  • Bonnie Daniels

    Ms. Daniels provides corporate technical, financial and managerial oversight to numerous large field projects. She currently oversees the USAID-funded anti-corruption project in the Philippines. She was previously the Officer-in-Charge of the USAID-sponsored Millennium Challenge Account in the Philippines, the Afghanistan Rule of Law project, the Rule of Law Effectiveness project and Afghan Governance and Legal Reform Project. She served as Chief of Party of the USAID-sponsored Youth Reintegration Training and Education for Peace Program in Sierra Leone and has been in charge of other major field projects in Uganda, Zambia and Trinidad and Tobago. She has worked in more than thirty countries worldwide. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s in Organization Development from American University.

  • Andrew Dicello

    Mr. Dicello has 12 years of international consulting and project management experience in the public and private sectors. He has worked for USAID, the State Department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the areas of strategic planning, project design and monitoring and evaluation. He conducted field evaluations and assessments of numerous projects and programs in the Middle East related to economic growth, trade, civic education and democracy and governance. His experience includes extensive assistance to manage grant programs, develop public-private partnerships and analyze and refine policies and procedures. Mr. Dicello is a seasoned trainer, working for six years with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a training and change management consultant for Fortune 500 clients in the pharmaceutical, information technology and financial services industries. He holds a bachelor’s from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

  • John Haecker

    Mr. Haecker has more than 23 years of global experience as a management consultant and professional coach. His areas of expertise include leadership, strategy, organizational effectiveness and performance management. His clients have ranged across private, non-profit and public organizations, including USAID, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Departments of Labor and Agriculture and the Corporation for National and Community Service. He is currently MSI’s Technical Director on the Georgia Public Administration Reform project and USAID’s Global Health Fellows Program. He holds a bachelor’s in Psychology and a master’s in International Economics and Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.

  • Molly Hageboeck

    Ms. Hageboeck has more than 30 years of experience as an evaluation specialist. In the 1970s, Ms. Hageboeck was involved in the development and dissemination of the Logical Framework, a management tool for improving project design, implementation and evaluation that is still in use around the world. She has served as the Chief of Staff of USAID and was actively involved in the development and application of strategic planning and performance measurement systems for U.S. government and international donor assistance programs. She consulted on evaluation and organizational management for the UN, the Peace Corps and other government and private sector organizations. She has holds a master’s in Economic Development from Princeton University.

  • Hisham Jabi

    Mr. Jabi leads MSI’s efforts in the areas youth development and knowledge management for the MENA region. In 2004, he directed the USAID-funded project Ruwwad that provided leadership, livelihood and civic engagement support for Palestinian Youth. He has been leading large-scale public and private initiatives in international development in the Middle East and U.S. since 1993. He previously launched MABCO, one of the leading information technology companies in the Middle East, and Jozoor, an NGO that provides entrepreneurship training and microfinance funding for Arab youth in rural areas. He received a President Clinton Scholarship to pursue a master’s in Business Administration and IT from the Peter Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California.

  • Mary Liakos

    Ms. Liakos has more than 15 years of experience in designing, managing, monitoring and evaluating development programs. She is a trainer and organizational development specialist, designing and facilitating workshops for NGOs and USAID staff. From 2001-2006, she worked with USAID’s Global Development Alliance where she led over 30 workshops on public-private alliances. She has also worked with the USAID’s Office of Private and Voluntary Cooperation’s Matching Grant Program where she coordinated the annual application process. She has extensive experience with U.S.-based NGOs and has been involved in over a dozen evaluations of field projects ranging from microenterprise development to agriculture. She holds a master’s in International Affairs and speaks French, Greek and two African languages.

  • Steve Metzger

    Mr. Metzger has more than 20 years of experience in information management and technology. His expertise includes software applications (SAS statistical and database management programming), SQL based programming (SAS and Cold fusion), geographic information systems (ESRI ArcMap and ArcGIS) and web design tools. He has experience in design and development of database management information systems, website and graphic design, statistical analysis and geographic information system (GIS) technology.

  • Deborah Orsini

    Ms. Orsini has more than 30 years of experience in management consulting and training, focusing on strategic planning, trade and investment promotion, business association capacity building and advocacy, project monitoring and evaluation, and training and facilitation. She works on the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), an innovative grants program designed by the State Department to promote economic, educational and political reform in the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked on strategic planning, performance monitoring and evaluation for USAID, the U.S. Department of Labor, International Labor Organization (ILO) and the State Department. She was previously the Director of International Programs for the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru. She holds a master’s from Middlebury College and speaks fluent French and Spanish.

  • Mark Renzi

    In addition to his marketing responsibilities, Mr. Renzi’s technical work focuses on project evaluation, policy analysis and implementation, project management, and management improvement. He has consulted profit, non-profit, governmental and international organizations in 35 countries, with expertise in Brazil, Sudan and Georgia. He previously served as the Technical Director for a diamond policy and management project in Sierra Leone, as well as the Sudan SUPPORT project. In Tanzania, he was Chief of Party for USAID’s policy and institutional strengthening activity. Prior to MSI, he was a management consultant at a New York City firm. He holds a master’s in public affairs and urban and regional planning, as well as a second-degree black belt.

  • Indhu Sekar

    Ms. Sekar has monitoring and evaluation and strategic planning experience in the public and nonprofit sectors. She designed and implemented program and summative evaluations for educational and agricultural programs and grants, as well as developed strategy related to security, women’s issues, and human services. She has also designed and delivered training modules on goal development using data for decision-making, indicator development and uses of qualitative and quantitative data. She previously evaluated educational and cultural programs at the State Department. She holds bachelors and masters degrees from Carnegie Mellon University.

  • Cathy Silverstein

    Ms. Silverstein has more than 23 years of experience in enterprise development, organizational change, strategic planning and capacity building in more than 25 countries worldwide. As Founder of the management consulting and economic development firm Enterprise Resource Group, Inc., she served 13 years as Managing Director, working with clients like USAID, US Department of Labor and FDIC. She is a Certified Strategic Planner by the American Management Association and former Adjunct Lecturer at American University’s School for International Service on “Strategic Planning for International Development.” She holds a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University with a specialty in Banking and Finance. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at Virginia Tech’s Center for Global Leadership in Sustainability where she is completing an Executive Master’s in Natural Resources Management.

  • Chip Temm

    Mr. Temm is Director of MSI’s Information Systems team, which provides business process analysis, knowledge management and system design/development services both internally and to field projects worldwide. He has 15 years of experience working in the areas of knowledge management, software architecture and development and project management. He is a certified Project Management Professional and PRINCE2 Practitioner. He has worked in a wide range of organizational settings including IGOs, NGOs, PVOs and government contractors in Europe, Africa and North America. He previously built knowledge management systems and practices at The World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Switzerland and Conservation International in Washington, D.C. He holds a master’s degree in International Development/Anthropology from George Washington University.

  • Jill Tirnauer

    Ms. Tirnauer is a senior monitoring and evaluation specialist with more than 15 years experience in social science research and evaluation of international and domestic programs. She specializes in the design and implementation of results-based performance monitoring systems, logic models and logical frameworks across different sectors, as well as qualitative and mix-methods frameworks for formative, summative and impact evaluations. She served as an evaluation officer with the State Department, a monitoring and evaluation advisor to the USAID’s Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation and a senior associate with a nonprofit organization and several private consulting firms in Washington, D.C.

  • Jennifer Ulman

    Ms. Ulman has nearly a decade of international development experience in program/project management, evaluation, NGO capacity building and post-conflict transformation. She has been involved in the design and delivery of the Crisis & Recovery Response Training, Programming in post-Conflict Environments and Provincial Reconstruction Teams training in Afghanistan. She is an adept trainer and facilitator. Her evaluation experience includes an impact evaluation of USAID/Philippines programs on conflict in Mindanao and a mid-term evaluation of a USAID/Ghana decentralization project. Jennifer has also managed long-term USAID projects, including the Greater Horn of Africa Peace Building Program. She holds a master’s in Conflict Analysis and Resolution and a bachelor’s from George Mason University.

  • Patricia Vondal

    Ms. Vondal has more than 25 years of experience in evaluation, strategic planning, performance measurement and applied social science research. She has provided training and technical assistance to USAID, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ILO and many others. She also has substantial technical expertise in designing and conducting evaluations, data collection methods and analysis. She has directed evaluations for USAID, the World Bank, the State Department and Heifer International. She has a PhD in Anthropology from Rutgers University and a bachelor’s in Anthropology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.

  • Katharine Wheatley Hoffman

    Katharine Wheatley Hoffman has more than nine years of experience in the fields of performance monitoring, evaluation, civil society, decentralization, economic development, and education. Her clients have included the State Department, Department of Labor, the IFC, USAID and the Kellogg Foundation. She has led evaluations of financial sector development projects in Russia and Ethiopia and managed monitoring and evaluation of a $90 million education project in Pakistan. She has also evaluated micro and small enterprise development projects in Mexico and Haiti. She holds a master’s in International Affairs from George Washington University and a bachelor’s from Davidson College.

  • Ellen Yount

    Ms. Yount has 20 years of experience in global media relations and strategic communications. She oversees strategic communications planning for Coffey International Development and coordinates MSI’s corporate communications efforts. She has advised governments and donor-funded development projects on crisis communications, effective media relations and messaging and audience targeting; and trained in more than 30 countries. USAID’s former press director, she has served as a Senior Advisor to USAID on foreign aid communications efforts since 2005; an advisor to the HELP Commission; and currently serves as the Advisory Group co-chair for the Coalition of International Development Companies (CIDC). She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Allegheny College and received a master’s degree from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

ECONOMIC GROWTH

    • Melissa Brinkerhoff

      Ms. Brinkerhoff brings more than 25 years of experience in international business development. She has focused on creating innovative and sustainable approaches to economic growth in low income and transitional economies. She was most recently a Principal Associate at SEGURA IP3 Partners. She previously was Senior Vice President at CARANA Corp., where she developed and implemented their enterprise development practice strategy. She also held a senior position at the IFC. At USAID, she designed and managed private sector programs in Haiti for four years before serving as Microenterprise Advisor for Europe and Eurasia. She holds a master’s from American University and a bachelor’s in International Studies.

    • Doug Baker

      Mr. Baker has more than 20 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation and environment and natural resources. He was most recently Director of the M&E Division of the USAID/Egypt Education Reform Program and Chief of Party for the USAID Monitoring, Verification, and Evaluation Unit of the Egyptian Environmental Policy Program. He has extensive experience in biodiversity conservation and other environmental issues, from policy to field levels – principally in Latin America and the Middle East. He helped write the first State of the Environment report for East Timor and a review of environmental and economic indicators for Africa for USAID. Doug was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Brazil and holds a master’s in Development Economics from University of Connecticut and in Latin American Studies from Yale University.

    • David Callihan

      David Callihan has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of strategic planning, program design. He improved program performance and conducted program evaluations with a special focus on improving natural resource management programs. Currently he works on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife MOBIS contract and the Environmental Policy and Institutional Strengthening IQC with USAID. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Party for a USAID/Namibia community-based natural resource management project and as Director of the US-Asia Environmental Partnership. David holds a master’s in Administration and a bachelor’s in Organizational Analysis for Management.

    • Bonnie Daniels

      Ms. Daniels provides corporate technical, financial and managerial oversight to numerous large field projects. She currently oversees the USAID-funded anti-corruption project in the Philippines. She was previously the Officer-in-Charge of the USAID-sponsored Millennium Challenge Account in the Philippines, the Afghanistan Rule of Law project, the Rule of Law Effectiveness project and Afghan Governance and Legal Reform Project. She served as Chief of Party of the USAID-sponsored Youth Reintegration Training and Education for Peace Program in Sierra Leone and has been in charge of other major field projects in Uganda, Zambia and Trinidad and Tobago. She has worked in more than thirty countries worldwide. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s in Organization Development from American University.

    • Andrew Dicello

      Mr. Dicello has 12 years of international consulting and project management experience in the public and private sectors. He has worked for USAID, the State Department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the areas of strategic planning, project design and monitoring and evaluation. He conducted field evaluations and assessments of numerous projects and programs in the Middle East related to economic growth, trade, civic education and democracy and governance. His experience includes extensive assistance to manage grant programs, develop public-private partnerships and analyze and refine policies and procedures. Mr. Dicello is a seasoned trainer, working for six years with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a training and change management consultant for Fortune 500 clients in the pharmaceutical, information technology and financial services industries. He holds a bachelor’s from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

    • Andrew Griminger

      Mr. Griminger oversees MSI’s regional approach with an emphasis on the Middle East. He is a specialist in institution building/organizational development, project design and management, and entrepreneurship development. He led numerous projects in and consulted throughout the Middle East for more than 20 years. He was USAID’s Technical Director on Iraq’s initial $4 billion reconstruction project and led USAID’s $340 million public administration reform project on behalf of MSI. He previously managed the Defense Department’s bilateral weapons programs, focusing the Arabian Gulf. He has worked extensively in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He holds a bachelor’s in Russian studies from the University of Illinois and a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He speaks Arabic and German and is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

    • Hisham Jabi

      Mr. Jabi leads MSI’s efforts in the areas youth development and knowledge management for the MENA region. In 2004, he directed the USAID-funded project Ruwwad that provided leadership, livelihood and civic engagement support for Palestinian Youth. He has been leading large-scale public and private initiatives in international development in the Middle East and U.S. since 1993. He previously launched MABCO, one of the leading information technology companies in the Middle East, and Jozoor, an NGO that provides entrepreneurship training and microfinance funding for Arab youth in rural areas. He received a President Clinton Scholarship to pursue a master’s in Business Administration and IT from the Peter Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California.

    • Douglas Krieger

      Mr. Krieger has more than 15 years of experience in international development. An agricultural and natural resource economist, he has helped to design and implement M&E systems and estimate the monetary value of non-market goods and services for domestic and international clients. His competencies include all aspects of quantitative and qualitative data collection, econometric analysis, spatial analysis and impact assessment. Prior to joining MSI, he worked with the World Food Programme to develop and implement a M&E system for its Purchase for Progress program. He has conducted evaluations of USAID projects in Pakistan, Lebanon, Rwanda, Ghana and India. Mr. Krieger holds a PhD and a master’s degree from Michigan State University. His publications include more than 25 reports and papers, which have appeared in peer reviewed journals.

    • Cathy Silverstein

      Ms. Silverstein has more than 23 years of experience in enterprise development, organizational change, strategic planning and capacity building in more than 25 countries worldwide. As Founder of the management consulting and economic development firm Enterprise Resource Group, Inc., she served 13 years as Managing Director, working with clients like USAID, US Department of Labor and FDIC. She is a Certified Strategic Planner by the American Management Association and former Adjunct Lecturer at American University’s School for International Service on “Strategic Planning for International Development.” She holds a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University with a specialty in Banking and Finance. She is currently a Visiting Fellow at Virginia Tech’s Center for Global Leadership in Sustainability where she is completing an Executive Master’s in Natural Resources Management.

Human Development

    • Ramon Balestino

      Mr. Balestino has more than 20 years of experience in strengthening the capacity of governments, development organizations and communities. He has worked to enhance organizations’ approaches, systems and policies to ‘manage for results’ and has delivered trainings and facilitated events with numerous development organizations, including USAID, IDB, UNDP, World Bank, MCC and FEMA. He has designed and managed projects for youth workforce, microfinance and enterprise development, food security, combating child labor and human rights education. He previously served as an associate director for the Peace Corps. Fluent in Portuguese and Spanish, he holds a master’s in International Economic Development from California State University – Sacramento.

    • Darcy Ashman

      Ms. Ashman, D.B.A., has more than 25 years of experience in international development as a technical specialist, applied researcher, program director and adult educator. She specializes in gender equality and human rights, civil society and governance, and organization and network development. Ms. Ashman helped launch two innovative NGO leadership and management training programs in partnership with African and Asian NGOs. She also provided technical advice and conducted evaluations to strengthen more than 15 USAID-funded civil society programs, including anti-corruption in Bangladesh, peace building and reconciliation in Sri Lanka, human rights, violence against women and trafficking in Bangladesh, and health programs in Malawi, Nicaragua, Vietnam and Bangladesh. She earned her PhD in Organizational Behavior with a minor in Civil Society from the Boston University Graduate School of Management and a master’s in Law and Diplomacy from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University.

    • Doug Baker

      Mr. Baker has more than 20 years of experience in monitoring and evaluation and environment and natural resources. He was most recently Director of the M&E Division of the USAID/Egypt Education Reform Program and Chief of Party for the USAID Monitoring, Verification, and Evaluation Unit of the Egyptian Environmental Policy Program. He has extensive experience in biodiversity conservation and other environmental issues, from policy to field levels – principally in Latin America and the Middle East. He helped write the first State of the Environment report for East Timor and a review of environmental and economic indicators for Africa for USAID. Doug was a Fulbright Research Scholar in Brazil and holds a master’s in Development Economics from University of Connecticut and in Latin American Studies from Yale University.

    • Joan Goodin

      Ms. Goodin is the Associate Director of the Capable Partners Program, a USAID Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement. She has more than 20 years of experience in senior management and institutional development in nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Her areas of specialization include organizational assessment and development from startup to major change efforts, including strategic planning, project design, resource development, process facilitation, training and performance monitoring & evaluation. Her management experience includes top positions in international labor and development organizations, several U.S. nonprofits and the U.S. Congress. She has served as an official U.S. delegate to several UN and OAS conferences. Joan has also designed and managed projects in the Baltic Republics, Africa, Asia and Europe.

    • Andrew Griminger

      Mr. Griminger oversees MSI’s regional approach with an emphasis on the Middle East. He is a specialist in institution building/organizational development, project design and management, and entrepreneurship development. He led numerous projects in and consulted throughout the Middle East for more than 20 years. He was USAID’s Technical Director on Iraq’s initial $4 billion reconstruction project and led USAID’s $340 million public administration reform project on behalf of MSI. He previously managed the Defense Department’s bilateral weapons programs, focusing the Arabian Gulf. He has worked extensively in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He holds a bachelor’s in Russian studies from the University of Illinois and a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He speaks Arabic and German and is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

    • John Haecker

      Mr. Haecker has more than 23 years of global experience as a management consultant and professional coach. His areas of expertise include leadership, strategy, organizational effectiveness and performance management. His clients have ranged across private, non-profit and public organizations, including USAID, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the U.S. Departments of Labor and Agriculture and the Corporation for National and Community Service. He is currently MSI’s Technical Director on the Georgia Public Administration Reform project and USAID’s Global Health Fellows Program. He holds a bachelor’s in Psychology and a master’s in International Economics and Public Administration from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University.

    • Carrie Foti

      Ms. Foti is a public health professional with 15 years experience in international health care programming, monitoring and evaluation. She has experience in field-based scale up of anti-retroviral treatment programs, elimination of mother-to-child transmission of HIV/AIDS, male circumcision, reproductive health, maternal/child health, and local capacity building. She also has significant experience in applicable CDC Prevention and USAID project design and management, reporting, and grant acquisitions. She served previously as the program manager for the PEPFAR-funded Kenya AIDSRelief HIV and AIDS treatment program; and was the Director of M & E of the Catholic Medical Mission Board (CMMB), focusing on projects in S. Sudan, Kenya, S. Africa, Zambia, Peru, Haiti and Honduras.  She was responsible for a M&E-related supervision and technical support portfolio for $21 million/year in U.S. government assistance, and an additional $265 million in product donations to 30 countries. She led in-country evaluations, including surveys and facility assessments; and the development of M&E strategies, frameworks, plans. She has worked extensively in sub-Saharan Africa. She has a master’s in public health from Columbia University and speaks basic French.

    • Kate Fehlenberg

      Ms. Fehlenberg is a public health and community development professional with 15 years of expertise in strategic planning, program design and monitoring and evaluation. She specializes in reproductive health; maternal, neonatal and child health; HIV/AIDS; gender-based violence; post-conflict settings and child marriage; special target populations including adolescents and refugees. She was a USAID Global Health Fellow managing western Tanzania’s first PEPFAR grant and co-managing Family Planning programs for the Jane Goodall Institute. As Director of Development for UCSF, she raised money from NIH and Gates for large-scale RH field research programs She conducted grant reviews and strategic planning with the Gates Foundation and served as HQ Technical Lead for USAID CSHGP and MNCH programs in Asia and Africa, including leading large-scale evaluations. She recently designed a five-year operations research initiative on child marriage in nine countries in Asia. She served on numerous inter-agency technical working groups in Washington D.C., including CORE and InterAction. She holds a Master’s in Public Health from Columbia University, a second master’s in Geographic Information Systems from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a bachelor’s in Environmental Science from Samford University.

    • Hisham Jabi

      Mr. Jabi leads MSI’s efforts in the areas youth development and knowledge management for the MENA region. In 2004, he directed the USAID-funded project Ruwwad that provided leadership, livelihood and civic engagement support for Palestinian Youth. He has been leading large-scale public and private initiatives in international development in the Middle East and U.S. since 1993. He previously launched MABCO, one of the leading information technology companies in the Middle East, and Jozoor, an NGO that provides entrepreneurship training and microfinance funding for Arab youth in rural areas. He received a President Clinton Scholarship to pursue a master’s in Business Administration and IT from the Peter Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California.

    • Maryam Montague

      Ms. Montague is a Senior Associate with extensive experience in running democracy and governance programs. Her expertise includes elections processes, media and communications, transparency and ethics and women’s participation. She previously worked for the National Democratic Institute, supervising programs in the Maghreb and taking on the role of South Asia Representative and Chief of Party in Morocco, Nepal and Bangladesh. She holds a bachelor’s with honors from Smith College and a master’s from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

    • Deborah Orsini

      Ms. Orsini has more than 30 years of experience in management consulting and training, focusing on strategic planning, trade and investment promotion, business association capacity building and advocacy, project monitoring and evaluation, and training and facilitation. She works on the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), an innovative grants program designed by the State Department to promote economic, educational and political reform in the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked on strategic planning, performance monitoring and evaluation for USAID, the U.S. Department of Labor, International Labor Organization (ILO) and the State Department. She was previously the Director of International Programs for the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru. She holds a master’s from Middlebury College and speaks fluent French and Spanish.

    • Lisa Slifer-Mbacke

      Ms. Slifer-Mbacke has more than 15 years of experience leading complex international technical assistance projects with multiple subcontractors, field offices and stakeholders. She has served as Chief of Party in Nigeria for USAID and worked as the Senior Capacity-Development Adviser to the West Africa Regional Mission. She also led the first MCC-funded Threshold Country Program in Burkina Faso. She has managed various contract mechanisms, including two complex global technical assistance IDIQs on child labor, forced labor and trafficking research and evaluation. She serves as MSI’s Practice Area Leader for Strategic Management and Performance Improvement and Technical Manager of the USAID-funded Africa NGO Sustainability Index, providing technical support to evaluation services, local capacity-building and democracy and governance activities. She holds a master’s in International Communications from American University’s School for International Service.

    • Jennifer Stewart

      Ms. Stewart is a development specialist with 13 years of experience in identifying, designing and implementing programs. She is the Technical Director for the Instability, Crisis, and Recovery Programs IQC. She has conducted numerous technical assessments in civil society development, rule of law, media, parliamentary strengthening and local government. She previously served as Director of Democracy and Governance at Chemonics International, leading business development efforts for the Middle East region and managing a civil society program in West Bank/Gaza. She has a master’s in International Peace Studies from the Notre Dame Joan B. Kroc Institute and in Political Science from Utah State University.

    • Katharine Wheatley Hoffman

      Ms. Hoffman has more than nine years of experience in the fields of performance monitoring, evaluation, civil society, decentralization, economic development, and education. Her clients have included the State Department, Department of Labor, the IFC, USAID and the Kellogg Foundation. She has led evaluations of financial sector development projects in Russia and Ethiopia and managed monitoring and evaluation of a $90 million education project in Pakistan. She has also evaluated micro and small enterprise development projects in Mexico and Haiti. She holds a master’s in International Affairs from George Washington University and a bachelor’s from Davidson College.

Food Security, Environmental and Natural Resources

  • David Callihan

    David Callihan has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of strategic planning, program design. He improved program performance and conducted program evaluations with a special focus on improving natural resource management programs. Currently he works on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife MOBIS contract and the Environmental Policy and Institutional Strengthening IQC with USAID. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Party for a USAID/Namibia community-based natural resource management project and as Director of the US-Asia Environmental Partnership. David holds a master’s in Administration and a bachelor’s in Organizational Analysis for Management.

  • Keri Culver

    Ms. Culver specializes in research and evaluation of international development projects in security and justice, education, entrepreneurship and microfinance, among other sectors. Her work has included multi-country studies in food security and food aid, teacher professional development, community mobilization, and entrepreneurship education. She has worked with a randomized controlled trial on Zambia’s social cash transfer programming, quasi-experimental impact evaluation on traditional justice in Afghanistan and education reform in South Sudan, rapid assessment of girls’ educational opportunities in Liberia, and performance evaluation of higher education grants, student learning gains. In more than 12 years in the field, she has led multidisciplinary teams and worked with partners in participatory design and capacity building/training processes.

  • Douglas Krieger

    Mr. Krieger has more than 15 years of experience in international development. An agricultural and natural resource economist, he has helped to design and implement M&E systems and estimate the monetary value of non-market goods and services for domestic and international clients. His competencies include all aspects of quantitative and qualitative data collection, econometric analysis, spatial analysis and impact assessment. Prior to joining MSI, he worked with the World Food Programme to develop and implement a M&E system for its Purchase for Progress program. He has conducted evaluations of USAID projects in Pakistan, Lebanon, Rwanda, Ghana and India. Mr. Krieger holds a PhD and a master’s degree from Michigan State University. His publications include more than 25 reports and papers, which have appeared in peer reviewed journals.

  • Mark Renzi

    In addition to his marketing responsibilities, Mr. Renzi’s technical work focuses on project evaluation, policy analysis and implementation, project management, and management improvement. He has consulted profit, non-profit, governmental and international organizations in 35 countries, with expertise in Brazil, Sudan and Georgia. He previously served as the Technical Director for a diamond policy and management project in Sierra Leone, as well as the Sudan SUPPORT project. In Tanzania, he was Chief of Party for USAID’s policy and institutional strengthening activity. Prior to MSI, he was a management consultant at a New York City firm. He holds a master’s in public affairs and urban and regional planning, as well as a second-degree black belt.

  • Chip Temm

    Mr. Temm is Director of MSI’s Information Systems team, which provides business process analysis, knowledge management and system design/development services both internally and to field projects worldwide. He has 15 years of experience working in the areas of knowledge management, software architecture and development and project management. He is a certified Project Management Professional and PRINCE2 Practitioner. He has worked in a wide range of organizational settings including IGOs, NGOs, PVOs and government contractors in Europe, Africa and North America. He previously built knowledge management systems and practices at The World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Switzerland and Conservation International in Washington, D.C. He holds a master’s degree in International Development/Anthropology from George Washington University.

  • Jill Tirnauer

    Ms. Tirnauer is a senior monitoring and evaluation specialist with more than 15 years experience in social science research and evaluation of international and domestic programs. She specializes in the design and implementation of results-based performance monitoring systems, logic models and logical frameworks across different sectors, as well as qualitative and mix-methods frameworks for formative, summative and impact evaluations. She served as an evaluation officer with the State Department, a monitoring and evaluation advisor to the USAID’s Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation and a senior associate with a nonprofit organization and several private consulting firms in Washington, D.C.

Democracy and Governance, Civil Society, Counter Extremism and Media

    • Lynn Carter

      Ms. Carter has developed democracy and governance (DG) and conflict mitigation programs since 1992. She helped USAID to develop a framework for assessing democratization that has been used since 1997. She conducted DG assessments and strategy development in 24 countries and applied research on violent extremism and the role of development assistance in mitigating risk. She led a team to produce the first handbook of indicators for measuring progress in DG programs and developed democratization results frameworks. She has extensive strategic planning, training, performance monitoring and evaluation experience. She has a PhD from the University of London’s School of Oriental and African Studies in Political Development and the Comparative Politics of the Middle East and a master’s degree from Harvard.

    • Gwendolyn Bevis

      Ms. Bevis specializes in comparative politics and research methods and has more than 20 years of practical experience in democracy and governance assistance programs. Her substantive expertise includes civil society, political party development and conflict, with an emphasis on South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. She has conducted democracy, governance and conflict assessments in Vietnam, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Pakistan for USAID. She has developed methodologies for evaluating and evaluated programs related to parliaments in the Middle East, women in the Middle East, civil society in the Philippines, civic education and women in politics. Gwendolyn has a PhD in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s with distinction in Development Studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

    • Larry Beyna

      Mr. Beyna has more than 30 years of experience in consulting and training for U.S. Government and international development agencies. His areas of expertise include strategic planning and management, program and project design, monitoring and evaluation and policy analysis. He has worked in domestic and international health, education, environment and natural resource management, democracy and governance, social services and economic development. He has worked in over 35 countries worldwide and served four years as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kenya. Mr. Beyna previously worked at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, the U.S. Departments of Health and Human Services and Education and James Bell Associates, Inc. His countries of expertise include Egypt, the Philippines and Russia.

    • David Callihan

      Mr. Callihan has more than 20 years of experience in the areas of strategic planning, program design. He improved program performance and conducted program evaluations with a special focus on improving natural resource management programs. Currently he works on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife MOBIS contract and the Environmental Policy and Institutional Strengthening IQC with USAID. He previously served as Deputy Chief of Party for a USAID/Namibia community-based natural resource management project and as Director of the US-Asia Environmental Partnership. David holds a master’s in Administration and a bachelor’s in Organizational Analysis for Management.

    • Bonnie Daniels

      Ms. Daniels provides corporate technical, financial and managerial oversight to numerous large field projects. She currently oversees the USAID-funded anti-corruption project in the Philippines. She was previously the Officer-in-Charge of the USAID-sponsored Millennium Challenge Account in the Philippines, the Afghanistan Rule of Law project, the Rule of Law Effectiveness project and Afghan Governance and Legal Reform Project. She served as Chief of Party of the USAID-sponsored Youth Reintegration Training and Education for Peace Program in Sierra Leone and has been in charge of other major field projects in Uganda, Zambia and Trinidad and Tobago. She has worked in more than thirty countries worldwide. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s in Organization Development from American University.

    • Phyllis Dininio

      Ms. Dininio has more than 15 years of experience in the democracy and governance sector. She served as the Senior Governance Advisor in the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, and before that worked at Research Triangle Institute, American University, the World Bank and in USAID’s Democracy and Governance Office. Her publications include USAID’s Guidance for Democracy and Governance Programming in Post-Conflict Countries, USAID’s Handbook for Fighting Corruption and World Bank’s Improving Governance and Controlling Corruption, among others. She has a PhD in Political Science from Yale University, a master’s in political and economic development from the Fletcher School and a bachelor’s in Economics and Sociology from Harvard University.

    • Joan Goodin

      Ms. Goodin is the Associate Director of the Capable Partners Program, a USAID Leader with Associates Cooperative Agreement. She has more than 20 years of experience in senior management and institutional development in nonprofit organizations and government agencies. Her areas of specialization include organizational assessment and development from startup to major change efforts, including strategic planning, project design, resource development, process facilitation, training and performance monitoring & evaluation. Her management experience includes top positions in international labor and development organizations, several U.S. nonprofits and the U.S. Congress. She has served as an official U.S. delegate to several UN and OAS conferences. Joan has also designed and managed projects in the Baltic Republics, Africa, Asia and Europe.

    • Jerome Hansen

      Mr. Hansen is a Senior Conflict Specialist with more than 12 years of experience in the strategic development and implementation of peace building, stabilization and reconstruction projects. Most recently, he was the Peace Building and Capacity Development Advisor with UNDP in Liberia. As Country Manager for the Sri Lanka Program at International Alert, he led efforts to create the Business for Peace Alliance. He has served on conflict projects for USAID, DfID, AUSAID, GTZ, the EU, SIDA, UNDP and numerous foundations. Jerome holds a bachelor’s in Politics from the Catholic University and a master’s from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.

    • Joel Jutkowitz

      Mr. Jutkowitz has more than 40 years of experience designing, evaluating, implementing and managing international development programs, particularly in the areas of legislative strengthening, political participation and civil society development. He serves as Technical Director for several USAID-funded projects, including local governance in Colombia, community policing in Jamaica and anti-corruption in Peru. He is also Director for the USAID Building Recovery and Reform through Democratic Governance IQC. He has led strategic assessments of Bolivia, Cambodia and Guyana, managed a policy reform project in Peru and supervised a conflict mitigation effort in Venezuela. He also carried out evaluations of USAID’s Latin American and Caribbean Bureau financial management and anti-corruption activities. He served as the acting Chief of Party on the Increased Citizen Participation in Strengthened Local Government Project in Guatemala.  He has a PhD in Political Science from New York University.

    • Maryam Montague

      Ms. Montague has more than a dozen years of experience in running democracy and governance programs. Her expertise includes elections processes, media and communications, transparency and ethics and women’s participation. She previously worked for the National Democratic Institute, supervising programs in the Maghreb and taking on the role of South Asia Representative and Chief of Party in Morocco, Nepal and Bangladesh. A legislative expert, she has managed legislative programs in Bangladesh, Morocco, Namibia and Nepal. She is also an experienced trainer and has published numerous guides and training materials to support programming. She holds a bachelor’s with honors from Smith College and a master’s from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

    • Deborah Orsini

      Ms. Orsini has more than 30 years of experience in management consulting and training, focusing on strategic planning, trade and investment promotion, business association capacity building and advocacy, project monitoring and evaluation, and training and facilitation. She works on the Middle East Partnership Initiative (MEPI), an innovative grants program designed by the State Department to promote economic, educational and political reform in the Middle East and North Africa. She has worked on strategic planning, performance monitoring and evaluation for USAID, the U.S. Department of Labor, International Labor Organization (ILO) and the State Department. She was previously the Director of International Programs for the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Lima, Peru. She holds a master’s from Middlebury College and speaks fluent French and Spanish.

    • Mark Renzi

      In addition to his marketing responsibilities, Mr. Renzi’s technical work focuses on project evaluation, policy analysis and implementation, project management, and management improvement. He has consulted profit, non-profit, governmental and international organizations in 35 countries, with expertise in Brazil, Sudan and Georgia. He previously served as the Technical Director for a diamond policy and management project in Sierra Leone, as well as the Sudan SUPPORT project. In Tanzania, he was Chief of Party for USAID’s policy and institutional strengthening activity. Prior to MSI, he was a management consultant at a New York City firm. He holds a master’s in public affairs and urban and regional planning, as well as a second-degree black belt.

    • Ellen Seats

      Ms. Seats is a rule of law and democracy specialist who has designed and implemented programs in judicial reform, advocacy, legal education, civil society development, anti-corruption, electoral reform, political party development and legislative strengthening on behalf of USAID and other donors. She lived in the former Soviet Union for six years, overseeing implementation of Ukraine’s $45 million MCC threshold. She also developed Standard Operating Procedures for Iraq’s inspectorate general system, managed USAID’s democracy portfolio in Jordan and designed anti-corruption initiatives for Serbia. Ms. Seats is a trial lawyer, having clerked for the U.S. District Court and practiced domestically for 9 years. She holds degrees in Business and Law from the University of Michigan.

    • Lisa Slifer-Mbacke

      Ms. Slifer-Mbacke has more than 15 years of experience leading complex international technical assistance projects with multiple subcontractors, field offices and stakeholders. She has served as Chief of Party in Nigeria for USAID and worked as the Senior Capacity-Development Adviser to the West Africa Regional Mission. She also led the first MCC-funded Threshold Country Program in Burkina Faso. She has managed various contract mechanisms, including two complex global technical assistance IDIQs on child labor, forced labor and trafficking research and evaluation. She serves as MSI’s Practice Area Leader for Strategic Management and Performance Improvement and Technical Manager of the USAID-funded Africa NGO Sustainability Index, providing technical support to evaluation services, local capacity-building and democracy and governance activities. She holds a master’s in International Communications from American University’s School for International Service.

    • Bert Spector

      Dr. Spector has more than 30 years of management, consulting, research and practical field experience in anti-corruption and good governance programs, public policy mediation and negotiation, conflict resolution and decision-making. He designed and tested the Corruption Assessment Handbook, which USAID uses worldwide as the standard approach for analyzing corruption vulnerabilities and developing programs. He directs MSI’s anti-corruption work and has supported government, civil society and business leaders in the development and implementation of anti-corruption strategies in more than 20 countries. Dr. Spector is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal, International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, and recently authored Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption, published by United States Institute of Peace. He holds a PhD in Political Science from New York University.

    • Jennifer Stewart

      Ms. Stewart is a development specialist with 13 years of experience in identifying, designing and implementing programs. She is the Technical Director for the Instability, Crisis, and Recovery Programs IQC. She has conducted numerous technical assessments in civil society development, rule of law, media, parliamentary strengthening and local government. She previously served as Director of Democracy and Governance at Chemonics International, leading business development efforts for the Middle East region and managing a civil society program in West Bank/Gaza. She has a master’s in International Peace Studies from the Notre Dame Joan B. Kroc Institute and in Political Science from Utah State University.

    • David Timberman

      Mr. Timberman has more than 30 years of experience specializing in governance and conflict analysis and the design of strategies and programs to support democratic governance and conflict mitigation. He possesses regional expertise on Southeast and South Asia. He played a leading role in designing USAID/Indonesia’s Democracy and Governance Program and helped design DANIDA’s governance program in Indonesia. He has held staff positions with Chase Bank, Asia Society, the Asia Foundation, NDI and USAID. He holds a master’s from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a bachelor’s with honors from Tufts University. He is the author or editor of several books and numerous articles on Philippine and Southeast Asian politics.

    • Jill Tirnauer

      Ms. Tirnauer is a senior monitoring and evaluation specialist with more than 15 years experience in social science research and evaluation of international and domestic programs. She specializes in the design and implementation of results-based performance monitoring systems, logic models and logical frameworks across different sectors, as well as qualitative and mix-methods frameworks for formative, summative and impact evaluations. She served as an evaluation officer with the State Department, a monitoring and evaluation advisor to the USAID’s Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation and a senior associate with a nonprofit organization and several private consulting firms in Washington, D.C..

    • Jennifer Ulman

      Ms. Ulman has nearly a decade of international development experience in program/project management, evaluation, NGO capacity building and post-conflict transformation. She has been involved in the design and delivery of the Crisis & Recovery Response Training, Programming in post-Conflict Environments and Provincial Reconstruction Teams training in Afghanistan. She is an adept trainer and facilitator. Her evaluation experience includes an impact evaluation of USAID/Philippines programs on conflict in Mindanao and a mid-term evaluation of a USAID/Ghana decentralization project. Jennifer has also managed long-term USAID projects, including the Greater Horn of Africa Peace Building Program. She holds a master’s in Conflict Analysis and Resolution and a bachelor’s from George Mason University.

    • Roberta Warren

      Ms. Warren has more than 35 years of experience in international development. She has extensive experience in activity management, monitoring and evaluation, customer surveying and survey research. Her sectoral expertise includes civil society, gender, and post-crisis reconstruction. She currently is Director of Business Services. Ms. Warren is fluent in Spanish.

    • Katharine Wheatley Hoffman

      Ms. Hoffman has more than nine years of experience in the fields of performance monitoring, evaluation, civil society, decentralization, economic development, and education. Her clients have included the State Department, Department of Labor, the IFC, USAID and the Kellogg Foundation. She has led evaluations of financial sector development projects in Russia and Ethiopia and managed monitoring and evaluation of a $90 million education project in Pakistan. She has also evaluated micro and small enterprise development projects in Mexico and Haiti. She holds a master’s in International Affairs from George Washington University and a bachelor’s from Davidson College.

    • Svetlana Winbourne

      Dr. Winbourne serves as a Technical Director on several long-term projects, including the Russia human rights, Serbia government accountability, and NGO Sustainability Index for E&E region projects. She has directed long-term anticorruption projects in Russia and Ukraine and civil society advocacy projects in Romania and Russia. She also contributed to an anti-corruption project in Albania and conducted many democracy & governance and corruption assessments, evaluations and strategy development assignments in Bangladesh, Belarus, Georgia, Indonesia and Kosovo. She contributed to the official USAID Corruption Assessment Methodology and to an anti-corruption sectoral study that supported the drafting of the USAID Anti-Corruption Strategy. Dr. Winbourne is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian and holds a PhD in Geography.

    • Ellen Yount

      Ms. Yount has 20 years of experience in global media relations and strategic communications. She oversees strategic communications planning for Coffey International Development and coordinates MSI’s corporate communications efforts. She has advised governments and donor-funded development projects on crisis communications, effective media relations and messaging and audience targeting; and trained in more than 30 countries. USAID’s former press director, she has served as a Senior Advisor to USAID on foreign aid communications efforts since 2005; an advisor to the HELP Commission; and currently serves as the Advisory Group co-chair for the Coalition of International Development Companies (CIDC). She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Allegheny College and received a master’s degree from Tufts University’s Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

Anti-corruption

    • Bert Spector

      Dr. Spector has more than 30 years of management, consulting, research and practical field experience in anti-corruption and good governance programs, public policy mediation and negotiation, conflict resolution and decision-making. He designed and tested the Corruption Assessment Handbook, which USAID uses worldwide as the standard approach for analyzing corruption vulnerabilities and developing programs. He directs MSI’s anti-corruption work and has supported government, civil society and business leaders in the development and implementation of anti-corruption strategies in more than 20 countries. Dr. Spector is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal, International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, and recently authored Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption, published by United States Institute of Peace. He holds a PhD in Political Science from New York University.

    • Benjamin Allen

      Mr. Allen is an expert in the rule of law, governance and anti-corruption programs, with a focus on Eastern Europe (Serbia, Montenegro, Kosovo) and experience in the Philippines, West Bank/Gaza, and Rwanda. Mr. Allen serves as MSI’s Senior Anticorruption Advisor in Serbia where he provides technical assistance to the Anti-Corruption Commission. He was the Chief of Party for the Palestinian Justice Enhancement Program aimed at strengthening public confidence and respect for the rule of law in the West Bank and Gaza. In 2007-2008, he served as the Chief of Party for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) Threshold Program in the Philippines – a major anti-corruption initiative that worked with the Office of Ombudsman, the Department of Finance Revenue Integrity Protection Service (RIPS) and the Department of Justice among others.

    • Bonnie Daniels

      Ms. Daniels provides corporate technical, financial and managerial oversight to numerous large field projects. She currently oversees the USAID-funded anti-corruption project in the Philippines. She was previously the Officer-in-Charge of the USAID-sponsored Millennium Challenge Account in the Philippines, the Afghanistan Rule of Law project, the Rule of Law Effectiveness project and Afghan Governance and Legal Reform Project. She served as Chief of Party of the USAID-sponsored Youth Reintegration Training and Education for Peace Program in Sierra Leone and has been in charge of other major field projects in Uganda, Zambia and Trinidad and Tobago. She has worked in more than thirty countries worldwide. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s in Organization Development from American University.

    • Phyllis Dininio

      Ms. Dininio has more than 15 years of experience in the democracy and governance sector. She served as the Senior Governance Advisor in the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, and before that worked at Research Triangle Institute, American University, the World Bank and in USAID’s Democracy and Governance Office. Her publications include USAID’s Guidance for Democracy and Governance Programming in Post-Conflict Countries, USAID’s Handbook for Fighting Corruption and World Bank’s Improving Governance and Controlling Corruption, among others. She has a PhD in Political Science from Yale University, a master’s in political and economic development from the Fletcher School and a bachelor’s in Economics and Sociology from Harvard University.

    • Juhani Grossmann

      Mr. Grossmann has over ten years of experience implementing Anti-Corruption and Election Programs in Eastern Europe and South East Asia. He currently heads MSI’s Indonesia program which advises Anti-Corruption institutions on internal and external capacity building efforts. He earlier worked in the Philippines on campaign finance reform and led an assessment of the country’s 2010 landmark automated elections. In Ukraine, he headed MSI’s component of the MCC Threshold Country Plan, focused on strengthening civil society efforts in combating corruption through over 80 local reforms and more than a dozen reports which represent the most thorough study of corruption in Ukraine’s history. Prior to that, he worked on civil society election monitoring and voter education programs in Ukraine and party support efforts in Russia. Juhani has held positions with Freedom House, NDI and IFES. He holds Master’s degrees in Public Management from Hertie School of Governance and in International Conflict Resolution from Landegg International University.

    • Shaukut Hassan

      Dr. Hassan is a senior anti-corruption specialist with 30 years of experience leading international development assistance programs. He currently serves as MSI’s Chief of Party in Kabul, leading a multi-year project that provides technical assistance to the government’s chief anticorruption agency, the High Office of Oversight. He was the Senior Policy Advisor and lead expert on anti-corruption issues at the Canadian International Development Agency. He is an internationally recognized expert on anti-corruption issues and has provided advice and guidance to government officials and nongovernment representatives. Prior to joining CIDA, he had over twenty years of international experience working in analytical and strategic environments in four continents (Australia, Asia, Europe and North America). He holds a Ph.D. and a master’s in International Relations, as well as a bachelor’s in political science.

    • Joel Jutkowitz

      Mr. Jutkowitz has more than 40 years of experience designing, evaluating, implementing and managing international development programs, particularly in the areas of legislative strengthening, political participation and civil society development. He serves as Technical Director for several USAID-funded projects, including local governance in Colombia, community policing in Jamaica and anti-corruption in Peru. He is also Director for the USAID Building Recovery and Reform through Democratic Governance IQC. He has led strategic assessments of Bolivia, Cambodia and Guyana, managed a policy reform project in Peru and supervised a conflict mitigation effort in Venezuela. He also carried out evaluations of USAID’s Latin American and Caribbean Bureau financial management and anti-corruption activities. He served as the acting Chief of Party on the Increased Citizen Participation in Strengthened Local Government Project in Guatemala. He has a PhD in Political Science from New York University.

    • Ellen Seats

      Ms. Seats is a rule of law and democracy specialist who has designed and implemented programs in judicial reform, advocacy, legal education, civil society development, anti-corruption, electoral reform, political party development and legislative strengthening on behalf of USAID and other donors. She lived in the former Soviet Union for six years, overseeing implementation of Ukraine’s $45 million MCC threshold. She also developed Standard Operating Procedures for Iraq’s inspectorate general system, managed USAID’s democracy portfolio in Jordan and designed anti-corruption initiatives for Serbia. Ms. Seats is a trial lawyer, having clerked for the U.S. District Court and practiced domestically for 9 years. She holds degrees in Business and Law from the University of Michigan.

    • Svetlana Winbourne

      Dr. Winbourne serves as a Technical Director on several long-term projects, including the Russia human rights, Serbia government accountability, and NGO Sustainability Index for E&E region projects. She has directed long-term anticorruption projects in Russia and Ukraine and civil society advocacy projects in Romania and Russia. She also contributed to an anti-corruption project in Albania and conducted many democracy & governance and corruption assessments, evaluations and strategy development assignments in Bangladesh, Belarus, Georgia, Indonesia and Kosovo. She contributed to the official USAID Corruption Assessment Methodology and to an anti-corruption sectoral study that supported the drafting of the USAID Anti-Corruption Strategy. Dr. Winbourne is fluent in Russian and Ukrainian and holds a PhD in Geography.

Security & Justice

  • Andrew Griminger

    Mr. Griminger oversees MSI’s regional approach with an emphasis on the Middle East. He is a specialist in institution building/organizational development, project design and management, and entrepreneurship development. He led numerous projects in and consulted throughout the Middle East for more than 20 years. He was USAID’s Technical Director on Iraq’s initial $4 billion reconstruction project and led USAID’s $340 million public administration reform project on behalf of MSI. He previously managed the Defense Department’s bilateral weapons programs, focusing the Arabian Gulf. He has worked extensively in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He holds a bachelor’s in Russian studies from the University of Illinois and a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He speaks Arabic and German and is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

  • Lawrence Cooley

    Mr. Cooley founded MSI in 1981. He is a specialist in strategic management, public sector performance and organizational development. He has served as an advisor to cabinet officials in federal agencies and in more than a dozen countries. For 15 years, he was the Chairperson of the American Society of Public Administration’s Development Management Network and received its National Award for Training Excellence. He directed USAID’s Implementing Policy Change program that assisted worldwide governments and oversaw a project rebuilding Iraqi ministries’ public administration. He previously worked at the World Bank, UNPD and as a Peace Corps volunteer. He holds a master’s in economics from Columbia University, MPA in public policy from Princeton and M. Phil. in management from the U.K.’s Cranfield School of Management.

  • Bonnie Daniels

    Ms. Daniels provides corporate technical, financial and managerial oversight to numerous large field projects. She currently oversees the USAID-funded anti-corruption project in the Philippines. She was previously the Officer-in-Charge of the USAID-sponsored Millennium Challenge Account in the Philippines, the Afghanistan Rule of Law project, the Rule of Law Effectiveness project and Afghan Governance and Legal Reform Project. She served as Chief of Party of the USAID-sponsored Youth Reintegration Training and Education for Peace Program in Sierra Leone and has been in charge of other major field projects in Uganda, Zambia and Trinidad and Tobago. She has worked in more than thirty countries worldwide. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Northwestern University and a master’s in Organization Development from American University.

  • Ellen Seats

    Ms. Seats is a Technical Director and rule of law and democracy specialist. She served as USAID’s election advisor, coordinating U.S. Government assistance during Ukraine’s 2004 Presidential election and subsequent “Orange Revolution.” She has designed and implemented programs in judicial reform, advocacy, legal education, civil society development, anti-corruption, electoral reform, political party development and legislative strengthening on behalf of USAID and other donors. She oversaw implementation of Ukraine’s $45 million MCC threshold, as well. She holds degrees in business and law from the University of Michigan

  • David Timberman

    Mr. Timberman has more than 30 years of experience specializing in governance and conflict analysis and the design of strategies and programs to support democratic governance and conflict mitigation. He possesses regional expertise on Southeast and South Asia. He played a leading role in designing USAID/Indonesia’s Democracy and Governance Program and helped design DANIDA’s governance program in Indonesia. He has held staff positions with Chase Bank, Asia Society, the Asia Foundation, NDI and USAID. He holds a master’s from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a bachelor’s with honors from Tufts University. He is the author or editor of several books and numerous articles on Philippine and Southeast Asian politics.

Public Sector Management

  • Lawrence Cooley

    Mr. Cooley founded MSI in 1981. He is a specialist in strategic management, public sector performance and organizational development. He has served as an advisor to cabinet officials in federal agencies and in more than a dozen countries. For 15 years, he was the Chairperson of the American Society of Public Administration’s Development Management Network and received its National Award for Training Excellence. He directed USAID’s Implementing Policy Change program that assisted worldwide governments and oversaw a project rebuilding Iraqi ministries’ public administration. He previously worked at the World Bank, UNPD and as a Peace Corps volunteer. He holds a master’s in economics from Columbia University, MPA in public policy from Princeton and M. Phil. in management from the U.K.’s Cranfield School of Management.

  • Joseph Christoff

    Mr. Christoff has more than 30 years of experience in designing and implementing performance evaluation audits and investigating the impact and effectiveness of U.S. expenditures on international development and security assistance programs. Previously he was the Director of International Affairs and Trade at the U.S. Government Accountability Office. He directed over 200 performance evaluations and conducted investigations of U.S. development and security assistance to over 100 countries worldwide. has presented the results of his work at approximately 40 hearings before the U.S. Congress as well as major news networks such as the NY Times, Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal. His reports produced nearly 200 recommendations for program improvements, facilitating changes in U.S. law; improved agency performance and evaluation goals; and enhanced oversight and accountability. At MSI, he focuses on enhancing the capacity of developing countries’ supreme audit institutions to strengthen transparency and oversight of public administration. He holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from American University’s School of Public Affairs.

  • Andrew Dicello

    Mr. Dicello has 12 years of international consulting and project management experience in the public and private sectors. He has worked for USAID, the State Department and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in the areas of strategic planning, project design and monitoring and evaluation. He conducted field evaluations and assessments of numerous projects and programs in the Middle East related to economic growth, trade, civic education and democracy and governance. His experience includes extensive assistance to manage grant programs, develop public-private partnerships and analyze and refine policies and procedures. Mr. Dicello is a seasoned trainer, working for six years with PricewaterhouseCoopers as a training and change management consultant for Fortune 500 clients in the pharmaceutical, information technology and financial services industries. He holds a bachelor’s from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s in International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

  • Phyllis Dininio

    Ms. Dininio has more than 15 years of experience in the democracy and governance sector. She served as the Senior Governance Advisor in the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, and before that worked at Research Triangle Institute, American University, the World Bank and in USAID’s Democracy and Governance Office. Her publications include USAID’s Guidance for Democracy and Governance Programming in Post-Conflict Countries, USAID’s Handbook for Fighting Corruption and World Bank’s Improving Governance and Controlling Corruption, among others. She has a PhD in Political Science from Yale University, a master’s in political and economic development from the Fletcher School and a bachelor’s in Economics and Sociology from Harvard University.

  • Brad Favor

    Mr. Favor is a senior manager with 30 years of experience leading a diverse range of national and regional development programs and projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. His expertise includes national program leadership and managing complex systems and operations. As Director of Field Operations for MSI, he oversees management of diverse development projects across multiple regions with a specific focus on conflict zones. As Peace Corps Country Director and Chief of Operations for Africa, he directed regional and national programs in education, health, environment, business development, agriculture and community development. He is a master trainer with extensive international training and training management background. He is also a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

  • Andrew Griminger

    Mr. Griminger oversees MSI’s regional approach with an emphasis on the Middle East. He is a specialist in institution building/organizational development, project design and management, and entrepreneurship development. He led numerous projects in and consulted throughout the Middle East for more than 20 years. He was USAID’s Technical Director on Iraq’s initial $4 billion reconstruction project and led USAID’s $340 million public administration reform project on behalf of MSI. He previously managed the Defense Department’s bilateral weapons programs, focusing the Arabian Gulf. He has worked extensively in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He holds a bachelor’s in Russian studies from the University of Illinois and a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He speaks Arabic and German and is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

  • Richard Huntington

    Mr. Huntington specializes in the cultural institutional dimensions of international development programs. He is currently MSI’s Chief of Party on the Iraq Tarabot project. His expertise includes strategic planning, results-based performance management systems and program evaluation. He has carried out more than 50 studies, impact assessments and evaluations in 45 countries. He served on the faculties of Harvard, Princeton, the American University in Cairo, the University of Khartoum and the University of Cape Town. He holds a PhD from Duke University in Social Anthropology.

  • Joseph Scheibel

    Mr. Scheibel has eight years of on-the-ground development experience in the Middle East and North Africa region. He recently worked as a Public Administration Advisor for the USAID-funded Tarabot-Iraq Administrative Reform Project and managed an integrated, whole-of-government technical assistance and capacity building program that encompassed all of Iraq’s central ministries and governors’ offices. He designed or contributed to reform initiatives in the fields of planning, procurement, project management, organizational development and service improvement. He has extensive experience in capital investment cycle management, public service delivery and decentralization. He holds a master’s in International Development from the American University in Cairo and is conversant in Arabic and German. He is also a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

  • Chip Temm

    Mr. Temm is Director of MSI’s Information Systems team, which provides business process analysis, knowledge management and system design/development services both internally and to field projects worldwide. He has 15 years of experience working in the areas of knowledge management, software architecture and development and project management. He is a certified Project Management Professional and PRINCE2 Practitioner. He has worked in a wide range of organizational settings including IGOs, NGOs, PVOs and government contractors in Europe, Africa and North America. He previously built knowledge management systems and practices at The World Conservation Union (IUCN) in Switzerland and Conservation International in Washington, D.C. He holds a master’s degree in International Development/Anthropology from George Washington University.

Decentralization & Legislative Strengthening

  • Joel Jutkowitz

    Mr. Jutkowitz has more than 40 years of experience designing, evaluating, implementing and managing international development programs, particularly in the areas of legislative strengthening, political participation and civil society development. He serves as Technical Director for several USAID-funded projects, including local governance in Colombia, community policing in Jamaica and anti-corruption in Peru. He is also Director for the USAID Building Recovery and Reform through Democratic Governance IQC. He has led strategic assessments of Bolivia, Cambodia and Guyana, managed a policy reform project in Peru and supervised a conflict mitigation effort in Venezuela. He also carried out evaluations of USAID’s Latin American and Caribbean Bureau financial management and anti-corruption activities. He served as the acting Chief of Party on the Increased Citizen Participation in Strengthened Local Government Project in Guatemala. He has a PhD in Political Science from New York University.

  • Brad Favor

    Mr. Favor is a senior manager with 30 years of experience leading a diverse range of national and regional development programs and projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. His expertise includes national program leadership and managing complex systems and operations. As Director of Field Operations for MSI, he oversees management of diverse development projects across multiple regions with a specific focus on conflict zones. As Peace Corps Country Director and Chief of Operations for Africa, he directed regional and national programs in education, health, environment, business development, agriculture and community development. He is a master trainer with extensive international training and training management background. He is also a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

  • Jerome Hansen

    Mr. Hansen is a Senior Conflict Specialist with more than 12 years of experience in the strategic development and implementation of peacebuilding, stabilization and reconstruction projects. Most recently, He was the Peacebuilding and Capacity Development Advisor with UNDP in Liberia. As Country Manager for the Sri Lanka Program at International Alert, he led efforts to create the Business for Peace Alliance. He has served on conflict projects for USAID, DfID, AUSAID, GTZ, the EU, SIDA, UNDP and numerous foundations. Jerome holds a master’s from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.

  • Joseph Scheibel

    Mr. Scheibel has eight years of on-the-ground development experience in the Middle East and North Africa region. He recently worked as a Public Administration Advisor for the USAID-funded Tarabot-Iraq Administrative Reform Project and managed an integrated, whole-of-government technical assistance and capacity building program that encompassed all of Iraq’s central ministries and governors’ offices. He designed or contributed to reform initiatives in the fields of planning, procurement, project management, organizational development and service improvement. He has extensive experience in capital investment cycle management, public service delivery and decentralization. He holds a master’s in International Development from the American University in Cairo and is conversant in Arabic and German. He is also a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

  • Ellen Seats

    Ms. Seats is a rule of law and democracy specialist who has designed and implemented programs in judicial reform, advocacy, legal education, civil society development, anti-corruption, electoral reform, political party development and legislative strengthening on behalf of USAID and other donors. She lived in the former Soviet Union for six years, overseeing implementation of Ukraine’s $45 million MCC threshold. She also developed Standard Operating Procedures for Iraq’s inspectorate general system, managed USAID’s democracy portfolio in Jordan and designed anti-corruption initiatives for Serbia. Ms. Seats is a trial lawyer, having clerked for the U.S. District Court and practiced domestically for 9 years. She holds degrees in Business and Law from the University of Michigan.

  • David Timberman

    Mr. Timberman has more than 30 years of experience specializing in governance and conflict analysis and the design of strategies and programs to support democratic governance and conflict mitigation. He possesses regional expertise on Southeast and South Asia. He played a leading role in designing USAID/Indonesia’s Democracy and Governance Program and helped design DANIDA’s governance program in Indonesia. He has held staff positions with Chase Bank, Asia Society, the Asia Foundation, NDI and USAID. He holds a master’s from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a bachelor’s with honors from Tufts University. He is the author or editor of several books and numerous articles on Philippine and Southeast Asian politics.

  • Jill Tirnauer

    Ms. Tirnauer is a senior monitoring and evaluation specialist with more than 15 years experience in social science research and evaluation of international and domestic programs. She specializes in the design and implementation of results-based performance monitoring systems, logic models and logical frameworks across different sectors, as well as qualitative and mix-methods frameworks for formative, summative and impact evaluations. She served as an evaluation officer with the State Department, a monitoring and evaluation advisor to the USAID’s Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation and a senior associate with a nonprofit organization and several private consulting firms in Washington, D.C.

Conflict, Stabilization and Recovery

  • Jesse Bunch

    Mr. Bunch has more than 25 years of international leadership and management experience in building democratic governance, post-conflict recovery and political transitions, economic development, infrastructure, and civil society development. He has managed or designed international programs in the Philippines, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Ghana and South Sudan. In 19 years of overseas experience, he has helped donors design collaborative interventions and managed large multi-component projects in post-conflict states. He worked on the implementation of the Dayton peace agreement in Bosnia and Herzegovina and a large USAID civil society, economic development and infrastructure program in Serbia. As chief of party of USAID’s governance and stabilization program in Afghanistan, he managed the support to communities recovering from conflict and attack in 14 provinces. He is the leader of MSI’s Conflict, Stabilization, and Recovery (CSR) practice.

  • Brad Favor

    Mr. Favor is a senior manager with 30 years of experience leading a diverse range of national and regional development programs and projects in Sub-Saharan Africa, Northern Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. His expertise includes national program leadership and managing complex systems and operations. As Director of Field Operations for MSI, he oversees management of diverse development projects across multiple regions with a specific focus on conflict zones. As Peace Corps Country Director and Chief of Operations for Africa, he directed regional and national programs in education, health, environment, business development, agriculture and community development. He is a master trainer with extensive international training and training management background. He is also a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

  • Andrew Griminger

    Mr. Griminger oversees MSI’s regional approach with an emphasis on the Middle East. He is a specialist in institution building/organizational development, project design and management, and entrepreneurship development. He led numerous projects in and consulted throughout the Middle East for more than 20 years. He was USAID’s Technical Director on Iraq’s initial $4 billion reconstruction project and led USAID’s $340 million public administration reform project on behalf of MSI. He previously managed the Defense Department’s bilateral weapons programs, focusing the Arabian Gulf. He has worked extensively in Jordan, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. He holds a bachelor’s in Russian studies from the University of Illinois and a master’s in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. He speaks Arabic and German and is a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

  • Phyllis Dininio

    Ms. Dininio has more than 15 years of experience in the democracy and governance sector. She served as the Senior Governance Advisor in the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization, and before that worked at Research Triangle Institute, American University, the World Bank and in USAID’s Democracy and Governance Office. Her publications include USAID’s Guidance for Democracy and Governance Programming in Post-Conflict Countries, USAID’s Handbook for Fighting Corruption and World Bank’s Improving Governance and Controlling Corruption, among others. She has a PhD in Political Science from Yale University, a master’s in political and economic development from the Fletcher School and a bachelor’s in Economics and Sociology from Harvard University.

  • Jerome Hansen

    Mr. Hansen is a Senior Conflict Specialist with more than 12 years of experience in the strategic development and implementation of peace building, stabilization and reconstruction projects. Most recently, he was the Peace Building and Capacity Development Advisor with UNDP in Liberia. As Country Manager for the Sri Lanka Program at International Alert, he led efforts to create the Business for Peace Alliance. He has served on conflict projects for USAID, DfID, AUSAID, GTZ, the EU, SIDA, UNDP and numerous foundations. Jerome holds a bachelor’s in Politics from the Catholic University and a master’s from the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University.

  • Hisham Jabi

    Mr. Jabi leads MSI’s efforts in the areas youth development and knowledge management for the MENA region. In 2004, he directed the USAID-funded project Ruwwad that provided leadership, livelihood and civic engagement support for Palestinian Youth. He has been leading large-scale public and private initiatives in international development in the Middle East and U.S. since 1993. He previously launched MABCO, one of the leading information technology companies in the Middle East, and Jozoor, an NGO that provides entrepreneurship training and microfinance funding for Arab youth in rural areas. He received a President Clinton Scholarship to pursue a master’s in Business Administration and IT from the Peter Drucker School of Management at Claremont Graduate University in Southern California.

  • Joel Jutkowitz

    Mr. Jutkowitz has more than 40 years of experience designing, evaluating, implementing and managing international development programs, particularly in the areas of legislative strengthening, political participation and civil society development. He serves as Technical Director for several USAID-funded projects, including local governance in Colombia, community policing in Jamaica and anti-corruption in Peru. He is also Director for the USAID Building Recovery and Reform through Democratic Governance IQC. He has led strategic assessments of Bolivia, Cambodia and Guyana, managed a policy reform project in Peru and supervised a conflict mitigation effort in Venezuela. He also carried out evaluations of USAID’s Latin American and Caribbean Bureau financial management and anti-corruption activities. He served as the acting Chief of Party on the Increased Citizen Participation in Strengthened Local Government Project in Guatemala. He has a PhD in Political Science from New York University.

  • Maryam Montague

    Ms. Montague has more than a dozen years of experience in running democracy and governance programs. Her expertise includes elections processes, media and communications, transparency and ethics and women’s participation. She previously worked for the National Democratic Institute, supervising programs in the Maghreb and taking on the role of South Asia Representative and Chief of Party in Morocco, Nepal and Bangladesh. A legislative expert, she has managed legislative programs in Bangladesh, Morocco, Namibia and Nepal. She is also an experienced trainer and has published numerous guides and training materials to support programming. She holds a bachelor’s with honors from Smith College and a master’s from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

  • Joseph Scheibel

    Mr. Scheibel has eight years of on-the-ground development experience in the Middle East and North Africa region. He recently worked as a Public Administration Advisor for the USAID-funded Tarabot-Iraq Administrative Reform Project and managed an integrated, whole-of-government technical assistance and capacity building program that encompassed all of Iraq’s central ministries and governors’ offices. He designed or contributed to reform initiatives in the fields of planning, procurement, project management, organizational development and service improvement. He has extensive experience in capital investment cycle management, public service delivery and decentralization. He holds a master’s in International Development from the American University in Cairo and is conversant in Arabic and German. He is also a Certified Performance Technologist (CPT).

  • Bert Spector

    Dr. Spector has more than 30 years of management, consulting, research and practical field experience in anti-corruption and good governance programs, public policy mediation and negotiation, conflict resolution and decision-making. He designed and tested the Corruption Assessment Handbook, which USAID uses worldwide as the standard approach for analyzing corruption vulnerabilities and developing programs. He directs MSI’s anti-corruption work and has supported government, civil society and business leaders in the development and implementation of anti-corruption strategies in more than 20 countries. Dr. Spector is the Editor-in-Chief of the academic journal, International Negotiation: A Journal of Theory and Practice, and recently authored Negotiating Peace and Confronting Corruption, published by United States Institute of Peace. He holds a PhD in Political Science from New York University.

  • Jennifer Stewart

    Ms. Stewart is a development specialist with 13 years of experience in identifying, designing and implementing programs. She is the Technical Director for the Instability, Crisis, and Recovery Programs IQC. She has conducted numerous technical assessments in civil society development, rule of law, media, parliamentary strengthening and local government. She previously served as Director of Democracy and Governance at Chemonics International, leading business development efforts for the Middle East region and managing a civil society program in West Bank/Gaza. She has a master’s in International Peace Studies from the Notre Dame Joan B. Kroc Institute and in Political Science from Utah State University.

  • David Timberman

    Mr. Timberman has more than 30 years of experience specializing in governance and conflict analysis and the design of strategies and programs to support democratic governance and conflict mitigation. He possesses regional expertise on Southeast and South Asia. He played a leading role in designing USAID/Indonesia’s Democracy and Governance Program and helped design DANIDA’s governance program in Indonesia. He has held staff positions with Chase Bank, Asia Society, the Asia Foundation, NDI and USAID. He holds a master’s from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a bachelor’s with honors from Tufts University. He is the author or editor of several books and numerous articles on Philippine and Southeast Asian politics.

  • Jill Tirnauer

    Ms. Tirnauer is a senior monitoring and evaluation specialist with more than 15 years experience in social science research and evaluation of international and domestic programs. She specializes in the design and implementation of results-based performance monitoring systems, logic models and logical frameworks across different sectors, as well as qualitative and mix-methods frameworks for formative, summative and impact evaluations. She served as an evaluation officer with the State Department, a monitoring and evaluation advisor to the USAID’s Office of Conflict Management and Mitigation and a senior associate with a nonprofit organization and several private consulting firms in Washington, D.C..

  • Jennifer Ulman

    Ms. Ulman has nine years of international development experience in program/project management, evaluation (analysis and training), NGO capacity building and post-conflict transformation. She has been involved in the design and delivery of the Crisis & Recovery Response Training, Programming in post-Conflict Environments and Provincial Reconstruction Teams in Afghanistan. Her evaluation experience includes an impact evaluation of USAID/Philippines programs on conflict in Mindanao and a mid-term evaluation of a USAID/Ghana decentralization project. She holds a master’s in Conflict Analysis and Resolution from George Mason University.