Deogratius (Deo) Kimera is a pharmaceutical supply chain management expert, a public health specialist, and a leader with more than 25 years of international experience in health systems strengthening, including 16 years serving as a country director for centrally awarded, multilateral USAID health supply chain projects in Botswana, Tanzania, Ghana, and Zambia. Deo has ample experience working with the U.S. President’s…
Fikreslassie Alemu is a health systems strengthening (HSS) director of the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program–Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) in Ethiopia. He is a pharmacist and public health supply chain expert with more than 16 years of experience in providing technical assistance, capacity building, and system strengthening activities in health supply chain and…
Bongisiwe Mosekoa is a pharmaceutical scientist trained in global supply chain management. She currently serves as a senior regional logistics officer for the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program–Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) project in Eswatini where she supports supply chain regional activities for the project. Regional teams conduct supportive supervision, mentorship, and training to…
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 Senior Director in Asia for the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management (GHSC-PSM) Project and acted…
Luke Waggoner is a former senior democracy and governance specialist at Chemonics.
Steven Dudley is the co-director of InSight Crime and a senior fellow at the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University.
Steve’s career has largely focused on designing activities to enable systemic change in the delivery of education in East, West, and Southern Africa. Following twenty years as CEO of Link Community Development, establishing education programs in South Africa, Ghana, Uganda, Malawi and Ethiopia, Steve moved to Cambridge Education in 2014, leading their partnership with Chemonics…
Owen Scott was formerly a senior manager for the Water, Energy, and Sustainable Cities Practice at Chemonics.
Belinda Glenn is the communications advisor for USAID’s VukaNow Activity.
Beth Skorochod is the director of practice for CollaborateUp, a partner to USAID’s VukaNow Activity.
Chloe Peebles is an international development professional with over 8 years of experience managing development projects in education, nutrition, public health, and supply chain in Central America and Francophone West Africa. After earning her master’s degree in international relations from the Université Libre de Bruxelles, Chloe worked for the Association Béninoise Pour le Marketing Social,…
Osama Amad has managed the wastewater component of Lebanon CSP since 2019, implementing several sustainable municipal wastewater infrastructure interventions and industrial pretreatment technologies. He has more than 30 years of design, construction, and operations & maintenance experience in the water/wastewater sector. Prior to Chemonics, Osama was a Superintendent with a leading water/wastewater utility in the…