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Senior Director, Middle East and North Africa Brian King

Brian King is currently a Senior Director in Chemonics Middle East and North Africa Business Unit though he provides technical support across all Regional Business Units. In this role, Brian provides strategic input to technical program design and implementation for both new business initiatives and ongoing agriculture and economic growth projects across the company. He is a senior international development professional with more than 20 years of experience leading economic growth programming focused on agriculture and rural development, competitiveness and market development, sustainable tourism, microfinance, information technology, and entrepreneurship promotion. Previously, Brian served as Chemonics’ chief of party for USAID’s Agriculture and Rural Empowerment (ARE) Activity in Lebanon and, prior to this, for USAID’s Zrda (“Growth”) Activity in Georgia, both of which were USAID’s flagship rural development programs in Lebanon and Georgia supporting agriculture and tourism as key drivers of economic growth, resilience, and food security. Prior to joining Chemonics, he served in senior field leadership positions for international non-governmental organizations in Myanmar, Tajikistan, Liberia, and Romania. He started his development career as a community economic development volunteer with the Peace Corps in Romania. Brian holds a MS.c. in applied environmental economics from the University of London and a B.A. in economics from the University of Virginia.