At ACDI/VOCA, we recognize that each project, system, community, and individual with whom we work is unique and diverse. This requires our team members to represent our complex work not only through professional experience and knowledge but also through lived experience and identity. It takes people of all backgrounds and identities to successfully and sustainably execute our mission while addressing the racial imbalance in our industry and systemic racism more broadly.
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Board of Directors
Executive Team
Technical Experts
Geoffrey Chalmers
Senior Vice President for Partnerships and Investment, Managing Director for AV Ventures
HOMe office Directors
Jennifer Himmelstein
Senior Director of Learning & Adaptation
Country Office Leadership
Melissa L. Alado
Country Director in the Philippines for the Cooperative Development Program and Philippines Country Representative
Philip Charlesworth
Chief of Party, Feed the Future Burma Agriculture and Food Systems Development Activity (AFDA)
George C. Dalire
Deputy Chief of Party of the Philippine Coffee Advancement and Farm Enterprise Project
Laurent Gomis
Country Representative in Guinea and Chief of Party of the Siguiri Agricultural Development Activity and the Cooperative Development Program
Dun Grover
Deputy Chief of Party of Market Systems and Collaborating, Learning, and Adapting (CLA) for the USAID/Honduras Transforming Market Systems Activity
Ana María Jimenez Cuartas
Director of Reconciliation and No Repetition of the Restoring Our Future Activity
Dr. Bidyuth Kumar Mahalder
Chief of Party, USDA Food for Progress Bangladesh Climate Smart Livestock Project
Simon Muli
Deputy Chief of Party of Expanding Economic Opportunities under the Feed the Future Kenya Livestock Market Systems Activity
Nephas Munyeche
Chief of Party of the Feed the Future Mozambique Integrated Resilience in Nutrition and Agriculture Activity
Giovanny Cuero Rincón
Deputy Chief of Party of Programs for the USAID/Honduras Transforming Market Systems Activity
Luis Alberto Sevillano Boya
Chief of Party of the Indigenous Peoples and Afro-Colombian Empowerment Activity
Muhammad Nurul Amin Siddiquee
Chief of Party of Feed the Future Bangladesh Livestock and Nutrition Activity and Bangladesh Country Representative
Thelonious Trimmell
Chief of Party of the Feed the Future Honduras Food Security, Agriculture, and Resilient Market Systems (FARMS) Activity