Ana de Paiva is the director of operational excellence of Connexi, a Chemonics company. She has spent the last nine years working with USAID’s global health supply chains. She was first exposed to supply chain management a decade ago during her graduate program in international development at the American University in Washington, D.C., and has…
Steve Thomas is a logistics and supply chain expert with more than 35 years of experience. Steve is well-versed in international logistics and currently serves as a warehousing and inventory logistics advisor for the USAID Global Health Supply Chain Program-Procurement and Supply Management project. He previously worked in China, where he was the vice president…
Abdulkader Alaeddin is a team leader overseeing the Syria Education Programme and a monitoring, evaluation, research, and learning (MERL) expert with 14 years of experience designing, implementing, and leading activities in conflict-affected areas across the Middle East, including in Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey. He has experience designing and implementing grants programs, including in the…
Harun Birlik is an experienced development professional with more than 10 years of experience working in the Middle East and North Africa region. Harun specializes in grant management, corporate and donor compliance, and internal audit. As a grant and compliance lead of Chemonics’ United Kingdom Division, he provides leadership in areas relating to financial management,…
Barry Chovitz has almost 30 years of experience in pharmaceutical supply chain management, working as a director or deputy director for supply chain projects in Tanzania, Namibia, and Mozambique. Barry has participated in a variety of supply chain management technical activities including strategy development, preparing annual work plans and budgets, designing supply chain distribution, inventory…
Mohammad Youssef is an expert in information security with 15 years of experience across the Middle East region and in conflict environments, including Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and Algeria with a variety of local and international companies in different sectors. He currently leads implementation in Syria to provide modern education support, stabilization, counter-violent extremism, and governance…
Based in Beirut, Alex Fischer is a conflict and stabilization professional serving as the Regional Representative for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region in Chemonics’ U.K. Division. Alex brings nearly a decade of experience living, studying, and working in the Middle East, including in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey, where he has…
Shamineh Byramji is an experienced development programme manager with 19 years of relevant experience across the Middle East and South Asia, including leading implementation and programme strategy as Team Lead on a USAID-funded education program in Morocco and Deputy Chief-of-party for a USAID investment climate improvement project in Palestine. She is currently Chemonics UK’s Programme…
Estefania McPhaul is an economic growth and trade specialist with more than ten years of progressive experience managing complex economic growth projects for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, and the International Development Bank. Estefania currently serves as global practice lead of Chemonics’ Economic Growth and Trade (EGT) practice where…
Dr. Muhammad Tariq is a physician and supply chain expert with more than 30 years of management and technical experience in global health and health systems. He currently serves as the country director for the GHSC-PSM Pakistan program. Muhammad has extensive experience in initiating and successfully executing programs at Family Health International (FHI), Population Services…
Dr. Barbara Fillip is a senior knowledge management and organizational learning practitioner with more than 20 years of experience designing and implementing activities in support of individual, team, project and organization-wide learning. Barbara earned her Ph.D. in international affairs and started her career working in international development, providing monitoring and evaluation services to organizations supporting…
José Lobo is a specialist in international development policy with a focus on citizen security. He has more than 18 years of experience working for Mexican government institutions, international organizations, and the private sector. Currently, he serves as chief of the party with the USAID-funded Program for the Prevention and Reduction of Violence (PREVI). PREVI’s…