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Senior Vice President, Middle East and North Africa Business Unit Melissa Gasmi

Melissa (Scudo) Gasmi joined Chemonics in 2007 and brings more than 20 years of experience managing complex international development programs. Melissa served as team leader for Chemonics’ Tunisia Tax and Customs Reform Activity in Tunisia, chief of party for Chemonics’ Asia and the Middle East Economic Growth Best Practices project, and program manager and deputy program manager of the global USAID Financial Sector Knowledge Sharing project. She began her career at Corporate Executive Board as a senior manager of a financial sector program providing strategic, best practices research for executives of commercial, small business, and market research divisions at more than 150 financial institutions worldwide. Prior to Chemonics, she was a program officer with Grameen Foundation USA and Philippines Country Representative for Innovations for Poverty Action. Her expertise includes mobilizing finance for development, public financial management, and forging public private sector partnerships. Melissa received a M.A. in international development with a specialization in developmental economics from the Heller School of Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University and a B.A. in International Studies, Spanish, and History from Dickinson College.