Dr. Charlemagne Gnoula is a pharmacist with more than 16 years of experience with the health supply chain in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Prior to joining the Global Health Supply Chain – Technical Assistance (GHSC-TA) Francophone Task Order (TO), Charlemagne served as a general manager of CAMEG, Burkina Faso’s central medical store for essential medicines…
Laura Glaeser currently serves as the chief of party for the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) team. She is a food security, early warning, and livelihoods analysis expert with nearly 20 years of experience designing, managing, evaluating, and providing technical assistance and decision support for food-security focused programs in Africa, Latin America, and…
Currently the director of Chemonics’ Grants Department, Roshana Cohen is an experienced field operations and project manager with more than 27 years of experience administering USAID-funded contracts and grants-under-contract (GUC) programs. Roshana provides strategic direction to a large portfolio of GUC programs in various technical sectors across the world. She serves as a resource to…
Asdrubal Negrete Lebette is currently the chief of party of the Colombia Rural Finance Initiative, where he works with banks, anchor firms, and producers to design and pilot innovative value chain finance mechanisms to help smallholders, small and medium enterprises to access credit and other financial services. Asdrubal has over 25 years of experience in…
Santiago Villaveces is a democracy and governance expert with nearly 25 years of experience in conflict and post-conflict settings in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Baltics. He is an expert in strategic planning and foresight, project design and implementation, thinking and working politically (TWP), political economy analysis (PEA), and political settlements analysis. He has…
Martha James is a senior strategic communications practitioner with more than 20 years’ experience in designing and implementing communications and engagement strategies for international organizations and programs. As director of internal communications at Chemonics, Martha is responsible for designing tools, events, and strategies that inform, engage, connect, and motivate Chemonics’ global workforce across multiple platforms.…
Currently the director of the Small Business Liaison Office, Heather is an international development practitioner with more than 20 years of experience in agricultural value chains, financial services, small business development, and rural development. In addition, Heather has worked on contracts and grants management with an emphasis on designing grant programs to avoid market distortions.…
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 Rural Competitiveness and Resilience Activity (RCRA) in Moldova. Kirk has worked to promote trade and investment and improve business education,…
Currently the Managing Director for Program Management, Middle East and North Africa, Mina Day has more than 20 years of development experience and a human-centered management approach designing and leading cross-departmental activities in home-office and field-office settings. Mina’s entry into international development started in Serbia and Kosovo while working on emergency and transition programming. Later,…
Shauna Caria is the global practice lead for Chemonics’ Gender Equality and Social Inclusion practice. With over 10 years of international development experience in Southeast Asia, the Middle East and North Africa, Central Asia, South Africa, and Eastern Europe, Shauna is an expert on disability inclusion, women’s empowerment, mainstreaming gender and social inclusion, combatting gender-based…
Dzenita Korac is an international development professional with more than 20 years of experience implementing donor-funded projects with a focus on post-conflict countries. Since joining Chemonics in 2003, Dzenita has served in a dozen long-term and short-term roles on projects in Europe, Asia, and Africa and led high-profile corporate initiatives. As senior vice president of…
Dr. Dah El Hadj Sidi is a specialist in health commodity management with more than 20 years of experience in the management of essential drugs, pharmaceutical systems and policies, and logistics and supply chain management. Currently, Dah serves as a technical director in Chemonics’ Global Health Division. As a previous senior procurement and supply chain…