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| MARY OTT |
| Mary Ott joins USAID/EGAT
this month as the Director of the Economic
Growth Office. She began her USAID career
in 1984, and was assigned as a program
economist overseas in Guatemala, the
Eastern Caribbean, Panama, and El Salvador,
and in Washington as Chief Economist
for the Bureau for Latin America and
the Caribbean. Since 2000, she has served
as Deputy Mission Director in Bangladesh
and in Egypt, and most recently spent
a year detailed to the Trade Capacity
Building Office of the Office of the
U.S. Trade Representative. Her academic
background includes a Ph.D. in Agricultural
Economics from the University of California
at Davis. |
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| JOLYNE SANJAK |
| Jolyne Sanjak is Senior
Director for Property Rights and Land
Policy at the Millennium Challenge Corporation,
responsible for assessing the relevant
aspects of MCC Compact development and
for oversight of Compact implementation.
She joined MCC in February 2005, bringing
close to 20 years of experience related
to land tenure, property registration,
and land markets as well as to broader
themes related to rural development
and economic growth. Prior to joining
MCC, Dr. Sanjak worked as lead specialist
on property rights and land policy and
for rural development in USAID’s
Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean.
She also contributed significantly to
USAID global efforts on special themes
such as remittances and land conflict
management.
Dr. Sanjak began her work with the
U.S. Government after spending many
years as an assistant professor of
economics at the State University
of New York at Albany, teaching a
diverse set of courses including microeconomics,
urban economics, environmental economics
and graduate level courses in economic
development. She actively engaged
in research focused mainly on land
tenure, agricultural productivity,
and land market access by the poor.
She participated in all aspects of
research including survey design and
implementation, data analysis and
publication of results. During this
time period, Jolyne also worked as
a research associate and project manager
in Macedonia and Honduras with the
University of Wisconsin, Land Tenure
Center. Finally, she engaged with
the FAO, World Bank and the Inter-American
Development Bank in preparing policy
papers and workshops related to land
policy. Dr. Sanjak holds a Ph.D. in
agricultural economics from the University
of Wisconsin. She also holds a MS
in agricultural economics with a specialization
in natural resource management from
Penn State University. |
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| JACKEE SCHAFER |
| Jackee Schafer is Assistant
Administrator for USAID’s Bureau
for Economic Growth, Agriculture and
Trade (EGAT). |
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| CARL SCHRAMM |
| Carl Schramm leads the
Kauffman Foundation, America’s
largest foundation dedicated to advancing
entrepreneurial success. Hailed as the
“evangelist of entrepreneurship”
by The Economist, he is recognized as
one of the world’s foremost thinkers
on the role and importance of entrepreneurship
in supporting a nation’s economic
stability and growth. In 2007, U.S.
Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez
tapped Schramm to chair the Department
of Commerce’s Measuring Innovation
in the 21st Century Economic Advisory
Committee. Schramm’s recent books,
Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism, with
Robert Litan and William Baumol, and
The Entrepreneurial Imperative, are
regarded as emerging classics, providing
new insight into the American and international
economies. Trained as an economist and
lawyer, with experience in business,
public policy and academia, Schramm
has led the Kauffman Foundation to develop
innovative programs aimed at transforming
entrepreneurship education, the technology
transfer process, the availability of
seed capital for entrepreneurs, and
economic research. He has been a professor
at The Johns Hopkins University, an
executive in the health insurance industry,
and the cofounder and founder of a number
of companies in the health care finance
and information technology areas. He
is a Batten Fellow at the University
of Virginia’s Darden School of
Business, a member of the Council on
Foreign Relations, a fellow of the Royal
Society of Arts, and the 2005 recipient
of the University of Rochester’s
George Eastman Medal. Mr. Schramm’s
work has appeared in publications including
Foreign Affairs, The Wall Street Journal,
USA Today, Newsweek, and Inc. |
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| DR. JAMES T. SMITH |
| Dr. James T. (“Jay”)
Smith is a development economist and
economic demographer working as an
independent consultant. As Senior
Deputy Assistant Administrator for
USAID’s Bureau for Economic
Growth, Agriculture and Trade from
2003 to 2006, he oversaw the work
of the Offices of Economic Growth,
Poverty Reduction, Education, and
Development Credit. Smith retired
from the Senior Foreign Service in
2006 after 29 years with USAID.
From 1998 to 2003, he served as Director
of the Development Planning Office
in the Bureau for Africa, responsible
for strategic planning and resource
allocation. From 1994 to 1998, he
was Deputy Director for USAID/Mozambique
with a portfolio of more than $60
million annually and a staff of over
100 employees. As the Africa Bureau’s
Senior Economist from 1989 to 1994,
he traveled widely throughout Africa
in support of USAID programs. Smith
also served as Program Economist in
Morocco (1983-1989) and Burkina Faso
(1978-1983). He began his career with
USAID as an International Development
Intern (IDI) in 1977.
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| MARIJN VERHOEVEN |
Marijn Verhoeven is
a Deputy Division Chief in the Expenditure
Policy Division of the IMF’s
Fiscal Affairs Department. He received
his education from Tilburg University
in the Netherlands . Mr. Verhoeven
joined the IMF in 1994, where he has
spent most of his time in the Fiscal
Affairs Department. He also was the
Fund’s resident representative
in Bangladesh from 2001–04.
His areas of expertise include the
efficiency of government spending,
social protection issues, the economics
of pensions, and public-private partnership |
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| HELLE WEEKE |
| Helle Weeke is a Principal
Development Specialist in the Economic
Policy practice at DAI. Before returning
to the home office in May 2007, she
was COP and Senior Technical Advisor
for the USAID-funded Vietnam Competitiveness
Initiative (VNCI) in Hanoi, Vietnam;
and, from 2002 to 2006, Ms. Weeke served
as a Trade Lawyer/Legal Advisor to the
USAID-funded Support for Trade Acceleration
(STAR-Vietnam) project. At VNCI, she
oversaw the finalization of the Provincial
Competitiveness Index (PCI) 2006 report
and the launch of the survey of businesses
for the PCI 2007. She also launched
new initiatives with provincial and
national government counterparts to
improve the business enabling environment
through systematic regulatory/ procedural
reforms. As a legal advisor to STAR,
Ms. Weeke provided technical assistance
for the implementation of the U.S.-Vietnam
Bilateral Trade Agreement and for moving
Vietnam towards WTO accession. She focused
primarily on legal and regulatory reforms
necessary to implement Vietnam’s
commitments for trade in goods and resolution
of commercial disputes, including a
complete revision of the legal framework
for contracts and modernization of the
rules for commercial arbitration, as
well as many other laws and regulations.
She also made presentations at numerous
workshops with members of the National
Assembly and senior government officials.
Before joining DAI, Ms. Weeke was
an attorney in private practice where
she specialized in resolving international
trade and commercial disputes and
advising clients on transportation,
maritime, and intellectual property
issues. She also worked as an international
trade consultant, conducting research
on international trade issues for
the World Trade Organization, foreign
governments, and businesses. Ms. Weeke
holds LL.M. and J.D. degrees, as well
as a Master of International Public
Policy degree.
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| LEAH WERCHICK |
| Leah Werchick is a senior
analyst with USAID’s Office of
Transition Initiatives (OTI). During
her fifteen-plus years in crisis intervention
and post-conflict assistance, she has
worked in Darfur, Iraq, Democratic Republic
of Congo, Rwanda, Bosnia, Haiti, Angola
and Suriname. Her focus areas include
protection of civilians in complex emergencies,
community-based methods for post-conflict
stabilization and recovery, political
participation and transitional justice.
Prior to joining OTI in 2002, Ms. Werchick
worked for the UN Office of the High
Commissioner for Human Rights, the International
Commission on Missing Persons and other
international organizations; she began
her career as a Peace Corps volunteer
in the Comoro Islands. She holds a J.D.
(summa cum laude) from American University
and a B.A. from the University of California
at Santa Cruz. |
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| STACEY YOUNG |
| Stacey Young, Ph.D. Stacey
Young is Senior Knowledge Management
Advisor for USAID's Microenterprise
Development office, where she manages
an award-winning Knowledge Management
& Communications program that facilitates
knowledge sharing among USAID's staff,
its partners and the broader microenterprise
community to improve microenterprise
practice via the www.microlinks.org
website. In addition, she manages the
office’s work in Base of the Pyramid/Social
Enterprise initiatives, and contributes
to knowledge generation in social performance
measurement, and gender & microfinance.
Prior to joining USAID, Dr. Young lived
and worked as an independent consultant
in Kenya and Uganda, working in the
sectors of health/family planning, HIV/AIDS,
agriculture, and development research;
before that, she taught political science,
women's studies and writing at Skidmore
College and at Cornell University, where
she earned a Ph.D. in Government. She
is the author of Changing the Wor(l)d:
Discourse, Politics, and the Feminist
Movement; co-editor of Rowing Upstream:
Snapshots of Pioneers of the Information
Age in Africa; and author of Philanthropy
for Social Change: Four decades of Ford
Foundation grant making in Eastern Africa. |
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