Our Team
Multicultural, multilingual, and multidisciplinary to the core—global in outlook and approach—DAI’s technical leaders are steeped in the challenges of delivering development solutions in the field. They are committed to sharing our innovation and experience to inform international development practices worldwide.
Albert Cevallos
Albert Cevallos has more than 17 years of experience in democratization, governance, media, human rights, conflict resolution, and youth programs in Syria, Iran, Iraq, Egypt, Lebanon, Kosovo, Bosnia, Serbia, Croatia, Macedonia, Montenegro, Cyprus, Rwanda, Cuba, Ecuador, Venezuela, Kyrgyzstan, and Kazakhstan.
Alia Afshar-Gandhi
Alia Afshar-Gandhi works in the area of food security and agriculture, where she specializes in rural livelihood creation in post-conflict countries. She manages the Food and Enterprise Development Program in Liberia and the Strengthening Sustainable Ecosystems in and around Nyungwe National Park program in Rwanda.
Allen Hollenbach
Allen Hollenbach works in the water practice area of the Environment and Energy group. He specializes in governance and the environment, with an emphasis on environmental services finance and local government administration.
Alma Porciuncula
Alma Porciuncula has been leading DAI’s work in the Philippines on innovative financing for water supply and sanitation projects, policy, and regulatory and utility reform since 1994.
Andrea Chartock
Andrea Chartock’s work at DAI focuses on promoting economic growth. She is currently Team Leader on the Agricultural Competitiveness and Enterprise Development (ACED) program in Moldova. She has also worked in Serbia, Indonesia, Ghana, Moldova, Haiti, Georgia, Kosovo, and Cambodia.
Andrew Watson
As a graduate student in geomorphology, Andrew Watson worked on desert soils in Tunisia and Namibia. Over the past 30 years, his focus shifted from the earth sciences and remote sensing to environment policy and impact assessment, natural resource management, and biodiversity conservation, and now, climate change adaptation.
Ann Hudock
Ann Hudock is a senior manager with broad technical, institutional, and geographic international development experience, specializing in civil society development, media sector support, and gender issues.
Anne Simmons-Benton
Starting out on her career path, Anne Simmons-Benton wanted to be a lawyer and work in international affairs. After 15 years of practicing commercial law in Virginia, she moved to Russia with the U.S. Agency for International Development and got hooked on development work.
Bagie Sherchand
Bagie Sherchand has dedicated most of the past 25 years to working on agricultural and smallholder commercialization issues.
Barb Lauer
Barb Lauer has more than 15 years of international field experience in government capacity strengthening, policy formulation, program development, program management, and monitoring and evaluation in post-conflict and transitional settings.
Barbara Seligman
Barbara Seligman is a recognized leader in health and reproductive health policy with more than 20 years of experience in health program development, technical assistance, and management.
Barry Reed
RAMP UP West is Barry Reed’s sixth project as Chief of Party. He has established a successful track record of program management, combined with internationally recognized expertise in the field of local governance.
Bill Grant
For some, international development is a walk on the wild side. For Bill Grant, it is the family business. His family has been involved in international health and economic development for more than 120 years.
Bill Parente
Nearly 40 years ago, Bill Parente earned multiple degrees in civil engineering with no intention of ever working internationally. His goal was a career with state highway authorities or the consulting firms that served them.
Boaz Tumwesigye
Boaz Tumwesigye joined DAI in 2010 as a member of the project management team for the Strengthening Sustainable Ecotourism in Nyungwe National Park Project (SSENNP), providing technical direction and oversight of sustainable, ecotourism development projects in and around Nyungwe National Park in Rwanda.
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