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Expertise: Rodeina A. Fattah is a development professional with over 30 years of experience in the Middle East, the former Soviet Union, South Asia and Africa. She started her career as a corporate banking officer at Chase Bank in Egypt, and then joined USAID, where she was a key leader in many of USAID’s most …
Sandra Amis is a contracting and financial management specialist with 25 years of experience in the interpretation and consistent application of U.S. government regulations, including the CFR, FAR, AIDAR and ADS. Over the years, she has managed the submission of more than one thousand MSI proposals and negotiated more than $750 million in successful contracts …
Expertise: Joseph Christoff serves as a Senior Advisor to MSI’s leadership team and practices areas. As a prior Senior Vice President, he led MSI’s strategy, evaluation and analysis (SEA); leadership and organizational development, and education practice areas. Joseph has more than 30 years of experience developing strategies and methods for monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness …
Expertise: Founder and President Emeritus of Management Systems International, Larry Cooley has more than 40 years’ experience in the fields of strategic management, public sector reform and international development. Currently serving as Board Chair of the Society for International Development and of World Learning, he is the author or co-author of widely used methodologies for …
Erin Stone guides MSI’s financial team as a member of the executive management team, and brings over 15 years of experience with international development organizations and federal agency consulting. She specializes in finance, treasury, accounting, financial analysis, budgets and forecasting, contracts and general administration. Prior to joining MSI, Erin worked with the Eurasia Foundation, the …
Expertise: Andrew Griminger is MSI’s third President, taking the leadership role in April 2022. For the previous seven years, he served as the firm’s Executive Vice President, working closely on major growth initiatives, and leading MSI’s business in new and existing markets. During his seventeen years with MSI, he has also overseen the company’s global …
Expertise: Ellen Yount has served in a variety of senior leadership positions at MSI for more than a decade. She is currently based in Warsaw, Poland, focused on Ukraine’s reconstruction and recovery efforts and regional donor-funded activities. During her 25+ year career in international development, she has focused on governance, strategic communications, capacity building and …
Expertise:Chip Temm is MSI’s Chief Technology Officer. For over a decade he has led MSI’s implementation of technology projects for our clients, driven internal innovation around business process improvement and knowledge management, and overseen our internal technology infrastructure. Prior to his work at MSI, Chip worked in software development in the fields of defense, nature …
Expertise: Michelle Adams-Matson is MSI’s Senior Vice President for Programs. In this role, Michelle serves as a member of MSI’s leadership team and oversee its expanding monitoring, evaluation and learning (MEL) portfolio, as well as mission support, education, and leadership and organizational development (LOD). Michelle brings deep expertise on using monitoring and evaluation (M&E) to improve …
Expertise:Alaa Al Zubaidi is a senior project manager with over 15 years of project operations in Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and other conflict-affected countries. She leads large, complex multimillion-dollar development projects to successful completion. Alaa specializes in USAID, DOS, OTI and OFDA projects in conflict mitigation, peacebuilding and civil society programming. Alaa managed MSI’s multimillion-dollar Iraq …
Expertise:Diana Alexanderson is an administrative and logistics manager with 14 years of experience, having supported more than 5,000 national and international events. She has proven herself in the field of training, project management and capacity building within international development. She has been responsible for contractual and financial management of large international projects in Latin America …
Sara Ambler is the deputy director for business development who oversees the opportunity managers and contributes to the growth of MSI’s business. She has a passion for working on proposals and thrives in the fast-paced environment. Prior to joining MSI, she worked on international development and exchange programs at World Learning. Born and raised in …
Expertise:Chris Bathon is a technical manager in MSI’s Peace and Stability service area. He provides technical and operational assistance for stabilization and transition programs, with a focus on small grants program implementation. He has six years of experience designing and implementing CVE, community resilience, stabilization, youth development and ICT for development programming. He has supported …
Expertise:Dr. Gwendolyn Bevis is a political scientist trained in comparative politics and research methods, with 30 years of experience in democracy, human rights and governance and regional expertise in South and Southeast Asia and the Middle East. Gwendolyn specializes in restrictive and conflict environments, with a focus on civil society, inclusion, violent extremism and the …
Expertise:Betsy Bury is co-Practice Area Lead for MSI’s Strategy, Evaluation and Analysis service area. She is a monitoring and evaluation specialist with more than 25 years of experience designing and implementing performance monitoring systems and overseeing complex evaluations. Betsy also specializes in creating and delivering training in results-based management. She has spearheaded the development of …
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