Wayne Lifshitz

Senior Director, Supply Chain Management

Wayne Lifshitz is an entrepreneurial senior leader, systems-thinker, business strategist, and strategic connector with more than 20 years of cross-cutting experience in Big 5 consulting, start-up, nonprofit, federal, and social enterprise sectors. He is currently a…

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Mauricio Moscoso

Chief of Party, Peru Institutional Strengthening Partnership for DEVIDA

Mauricio Moscoso currently serves as the chief of party for Peru Institutional Strengthening Partnership for DEVIDA. He has over 15 years of experience in consulting, designing, and implementing economic development projects in Latin-American, Asia, and Eurasia. …

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Dany Khy

Senior Advisor, Private Sector Engagement

Dany Khy is a senior international development professional with more than 16 years of experience leading programs in economic development with a focus on entrepreneurship, finance, and forging innovative public-private partnerships in the world’s largest emerging…

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Kirk Ramer

Chief of Party, USAID Agribusiness Development Activity (ADA)

Kirk Ramer has over 25 years of experience managing projects to promote agricultural and small-and medium-sized enterprise development in southeastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. He is currently the chief of party of the Agribusiness…

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Catherine Kannam

Chief Operating Officer

Catherine Kannam is Chemonics’ chief operating officer. Prior to this role, she was the senior vice president (SVP) for Chemonics’ Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan region as well as the SVP for Chemonics’ Gender, Equality, and…

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Safir Sahar

Project Management Director, Syria, Iraq, Yemen, and Afghanistan Regional Business Unit

Safir Sahar is a trade and customs legal expert with nearly 15 years of trade and customs reform experience, including six years implementing USAID-funded economic growth projects in Afghanistan and Central Asia. He is currently a…

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John Thissen

John Thissen is a public finance management specialist with more than 20 years of experience in tax policy, revenue estimation, and forecasting, and impact analysis. He is currently a director in the Europe and Eurasia region…

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Melissa Cook

Melissa Cook formerly led Chemonics’ Digital Transformation team to create and implement a modern Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform.

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Isaiah Oliver

Deputy Chief of Party - Partnerships, Climate Finance for Development Accelerator

Isaiah Oliver is a private sector engagement, trade and investment, and climate finance expert with more than 13 years of experience focusing on the Middle East, Asia, Europe and Eurasia, and Latin America. He has conducted…

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Melissa Logan

Chief Ethics and Compliance Officer

Currently leading the corporate ethics and compliance program, Melissa Logan has more than 20 years of experience as a development strategist and executive at Chemonics. She has served on Chemonics’ executive team for more than a…

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