Faculty The IDEV faculty members, both full-time faculty and adjunct professors, come from many academic disciplines, professions and backgrounds - a diversity that is evident in their ideas and their teaching. They are concerned with both theoretical issues and with the larger historical, philosophical, and policy questions that the great post-war development efforts have given rise to worldwide. Equally important, they bring to the classroom deep and broad practical experience, enriching their teaching with recent case studies and fresh perspectives. Francis Fukuyama, IDEV Director
Dr. Fukuyama has taught at George Mason University, directed the New Sciences Project and the Telecommunications Project at SAIS, and was a visiting lecturer at the University of California, Los Angeles. He has also served as a staff member and consultant with the RAND Corporation, and as deputy director of the Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department. Fukuyama is the author of more than 80 publications, including The End of History and the Last Man (1992), which received the Los Angeles Times Book Critics Award and the Premio Capri International Award, and is the winner of the U.S. Pan Asian-American Chamber of Commerce's Excellence 2000 Award (1995), and of the Medal of the Presidency of the Italian Republic (1993). A founding member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, Fukuyama is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the board of directors of the National Endowment for Democracy, and chairs the Executive Committee of the Journal "The American Interest". Fukuyama received his Ph.D. in Soviet foreign policy and Middle Eastern politics from Harvard University. He teaches Comparative National Systems, a SAIS Core course, and IDEV courses on various topics, primarily in the Politics and Governance track. Click here to visit his personal Web site. Cinnamon Dornsife, IDEV Associate Director
Currently Associate Director, International Development Program at SAIS, Ms. Dornsife is a senior executive, negotiator, and advocate with nearly thirty years experience in international banking, economic development, and foreign policy. An expert in Asian-Pacific affairs, Ms. Dornsife’s prior experience includes service as the Ambassador and US Executive Director, representing the US on the Board of Directors at the Asian Development Bank, and Washington Representative and a number of field positions for The Asia Foundation. Ms. Dornsife’s career in international development has also included work for the World Bank, the US Department of Agriculture, the US-Asia Environmental Partnership and the Pathfinder Fund. She currently serves on a number of boards including the World Trade Partnership, First Voice International, the Development Executive Group, and the US-Indonesia Society. Ms. Dornsife received a Master’s Degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry and Mathematics from Emory University. She teaches the course Assessing the Role of International Financial Institutions: Past, Present and Future and co teaches Management Principles of Development Non-Profit Organization, and Indonesian Development: Power Politics, Policies.
Office Hours Spring 2009: Or by request for other times - email at cdornsife@jhu.edu
Erik Bloom
Erik Bloom a Senior Economist at the World Bank in the Education Sector in the Latin America Region, working on basic and higher education issues in Colombia, Mexico and Peru. Prior to coming to the World Bank, he was a Country Economist and a Human Development Economist in the Mekong Department of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) and an economist in the Economics and Research Development of the ADB, where he worked extensively in projects and research focused on the health status of poor the in Viet Nam and Cambodia. His research has focused on health financing for the poor, the human development of ethnic minorities, and inequality in human development. He was a leading economic researcher on the economic impact of avian flu. Bloom was also a Professor of Economics in Mexico (at CIDE) and a Poverty Reduction Specialist under contract to the Government of Colombia. Bloom has a PhD. in Economics from Yale University and B.A. in International Relations and Spanish from U.C. Davis. He co-teaches Education Policy and Practice in the Developing World. Monica Brand
Ms. Brand is Vice President of Marketing and Product Development for ACCION International, focusing on new product development, market intelligence, customer service, and organizational efficiency. Prior to ACCION, Ms Brand worked two years for the Development Fund in San Francisco, helping design and launch a $50 million statewide lending intermediary to finance small business and community facilities. Following this successful launch, she worked as a loan officer at a revolving loan fund in Oakland, California to finance environmentally friendly small businesses. Her professional experience also includes work in Cape Town, South Africa, where she founded an entrepreneurial training organization affiliated with a venture capital fund for disadvantaged small and medium sized businesses. Ms Brand's first experience in business development services was as a trainer for the Women's Initiative for Self-Employment, where she assisted female microentrepreneurs in launching their own enterprises. Ms. Brand has authored ACCION's monograph, "Maximizing Efficiency in Microfinance;" two "Technical Notes" and one "Guide to New Product Development" for USAID's Microenterprise Best Practices; and numerous case studies for the Harvard Business School. Ms. Brand holds an MBA and an M.A. in Education from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Economics from Williams College. She co-teaches Advanced Topics in Microfinance. Gerald M. Britan
Dr. Britan currently heads USAID's central Performance Analysis and Evaluation unit. During more than two decades at USAID, he has served as the Agency's Senior Evaluation Advisor, Director of the Center for Development Information and Evaluation (CDIE), and Director of the Office of Management Policy, Performance, and Administration. He has designed and implemented complex evaluation studies of projects in such diverse fields as population, technology-transfer, agricultural research, and child survival in various countries of Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Americas. In the mid-1990s, Dr Britan also co-chaired USAID's Results-Oriented Reengineering Task Force which developed USAID's present results-based management system. After receiving his Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University, Dr. Britan taught Anthropology and Public Management at Northwestern University and served as Associate Dean of Graduate Studies and Research at Southern Illinois University. He has also taught courses in statistics, research design and research methods at Virginia Tech and George Washington University. He has authored four books and over 50 articles on evaluation, development, and socioeconomic change. He teaches Monitoring and Evaluation of Development Programs & Projects. Tillman Bruett
Till Bruett co-founded Alternative Credit Technologies (ACT) in 2000, which provides management consulting services in the field of microfinance and microenterprise development. In the 1990s he worked in the international financial institutions group at Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase) in New York and later managed new business development and a capital fund at FINCA International. Mr. Bruett has worked closely with microfinance institutions (MFIs) and microenterprise support projects to train staff, develop products, improve delivery mechanisms, and strengthen planning, monitoring, controls, and overall management. He also works with microfinance associations and networks, donors, governments and banks providing strategic advice, technical assistance and training. He has designed training courses, projects, and technical assistance mechanisms as well as funds for grants, loans, equity and guarantees. Mr. Bruett is author and editor of several guides, manuals, and technical notes focusing on MFI management, with an emphasis on financial performance and management. In addition to developing tools and trainings for performance monitoring, business planning, and institutional assessments. Mr. Bruett has been an adjunct professor for microenterprise development at Georgetown University and SAIS. He graduated from Duke University in 1988 and SAIS in 1993 (Bologna and Washington). He co-teaches Microfinance and Development. Thomas Carothers (not teaching during AY 2008-2009)
Thomas Carothers is director of the Democracy and Rule of Law Project at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, a research project that analyzes the state of democracy around the world and efforts by Western governments, non-governmental organizations, and international institutions to promote democracy abroad. Widely recognized as a leading international authority on democracy promotion, Mr. Carothers has worked on democracy assistance projects for many public and private organizations and carried out extensive field research on democracy-building programs in Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union, Latin America, Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. He is the author or editor of seven books on democracy and rule of law promotion, including most recently Promoting the Rule of Law Abroad: In Search of Knowledge (Carnegie, 2006). He has worked as an attorney at Arnold & Porter in Washington and at the Office of the Legal Adviser of the U.S. Department of State. He is a graduate of Harvard Law School, the London School of Economics, and Harvard College. Marc Cohen
Marc Cohen is a Research Fellow in the Food Consumption and Nutrition Division at the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) in Washington, DC. His current research focuses on governance, institutions, and policy making processes in food security; globalization and food security; conflict and food security; and the right to adequate food. Cohen earned his B.A. in French at Carleton College, and his M.A. and Ph.D. in political science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Dr. Cohen co-teaches the course Issues in Rural Development with Peter Veit. Joseph W. Davis
Joseph Davis is Senior Associate Director of International Affairs with the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). He has been active in international labor affairs since serving as an advisor and economist at the Kenya Tom Mboya Labour College from 1982-85. Since then he has worked extensively with labor organizations in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia, teaching and developing programs in economic education, organizational development and democracy. Most recently, he has coordinated the AFTs Africa AIDS programs and a professional development program for teachers in Asia. Mr Davis has held full-time faculty positions at Rhode Island College and the University of Massachusetts and has lectured at Georgetown University and the Foreign Service Institute. He has a Masters Degree in Political Economy from the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research. He co-teaches Labor in Developing Countries. Hazel Denton
Professor Denton has had a lifelong interest in population issues in a broad career covering advertising and marketing, academia, government service, and twenty years at the World Bank. She is currently a consultant in the areas of health and population, with a particular focus on HIV/AIDS. At the World Bank, Ms. Denton’s operational experience centered on Sub-Saharan Africa and Eastern Europe, and she headed the Board Operations Division of the Corporate Secretariat. She has taught at the Harvard Business School, worked on foreign aid issues at the Congressional Budget Office and on the National Security Council, and was with London Economist's, Intelligence Unit. She holds a PhD in Economics from Harvard University. At SAIS Ms. Denton teaches Population and Development Policies. William A. Douglas
Dr. Douglas is an educator, trained in the field of international relations, and specializes in democracy in developing countries, international labor affairs, and international ethics. He has taught university students at SAIS, adults in a mid-career graduate program at Georgetown University, foreign visitors to the U.S., U.S. Foreign Service officers, and Latin American, African, and East European trade unionists. He has over three decades of practical experience in international labor affairs, and has lived and worked for extended periods in Europe, Latin America, and Asia (where he has twice been a Fulbright Lecturer in Korea). At SAIS, he co-teaches Labor in Developing Countries and teaches Ethics, Choice and a Just World Order. He holds a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Washington, an M.A. from SAIS, and a Ph.D. in Politics from Princeton University.
Office Hours Spring 2009: wdouglas@jhu.edu Jeanne Downing
Dr. Downing is the Senior Business Development Services (BDS) Advisor at the USAID Global Bureau's Office of Microenterprise Development. She has worked on small and microenterprise development over the last twenty years, focusing primarily on business development services. This work has included urban-rural linkage analysis as part of a cooperative agreement with Clark University; agribusiness initiatives promoted by USAID's former Office of Market Development; research on microenterprise development under the former GEMINI Project and with a World-Bank, small and micro enterprise development research project; and as a long-term consultant for MD's MicroServe Project. Dr. Downing teaches the course Value Chains and Micro and Small Enterprise Growth. Laura Foose
Laura Foose has twelve years of experience in program/policy design and advocacy, promoting private sector development and poverty alleviation in developing and transition countries. Ms. Foose is a Partner of Alternative Credit Technologies, a microfinance consulting firm. She has formulated microfinance policies for the international donor community, in particular USAID and the multilateral development banks (MDBs). As Secretariat of the Microenterprise Coalition for five years, Ms. Foose represented 27 microenterprise practitioner and advocacy organizations to donor agencies, the US Administration, and members of Congress and helped to draft the Microenterprise for Self Reliance Act that now governs USAID's microenterprise program. She has designed microfinance projects and conducted evaluations of MFIs. She has led the Poverty Outreach Working Group at the SEEP Network for the last four years which is working extensively on poverty assessment and poverty downreach issues. Ms. Foose also moderates the Social Performance Task Force which is an international group of donors, investors, practitioners and raters interested in advancing transparency and the social performance of MFIs. She is a Founder and Executive Committee Member of the association "Woman Advancing Microfinance." Ms. Foose holds an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University, and a B.A. in Economics and B.A. in International Relations from Brown University. She co-teaches Microfinance and Development with Colleen Green and Tillman Bruett. Grace Goodell
Dr. Goodell, former SC&D director, earned her Ph.D. in anthropology from Columbia University with a dissertation based on two-and-one-half years of field research in the World Bank's showcase Dez Irrigation Project in Khuzestan Province, Iran. The first agricultural anthropologist at the International Rice Research Institute in the Philippines, she has been a visiting scholar at the Australian National University and at the Harvard Institute for International Development, a fellow in law and development at the Harvard Law School, and a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Goodell's field research and applied work frequently link her with agricultural scientists in two main areas of agricultural development: crop protection and irrigation. She has had short-term assignments with numerous development agencies, and has served on various advisory boards. She is currently writing a book on the non-economic factors behind the rapid rise of East Asia's "four little dragons" (Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and South Korea). Goodell has also lectured at various universities, published numerous articles, and collaborated in writing a university-level agricultural textbook for use in developing countries. You can find Professor Goodell's Reading and Writing Guides here . Colleen Green
Colleen Green is a microenterprise specialist with Development Alternatives Incorporated's. (DAI) Enterprise Business and Finance Group. She has more than twelve years experience in providing technical assistance to microenterprise development organizations, donors and host governments. Ms. Green has worked with microenterprise institutions to identify operational, policy and financial constraints to microenterprise development. Ms. Green has worked extensively with banks, NGO microfinance institutions, and credit cooperatives in Latin America, Eastern Europe, the New Independent States, and Africa, providing technical assistance in strategic planning, credit administration, market research, and financial management. Ms. Green is currently the Project Director of the AMAP Financial Services Knowledge Generation project, a USAID-funded project focused on expanding research on microfinance, particularly looking at new and innovative institutional models for microfinance, which include commercial and state-owned banks. Prior to joining DAI, Ms. Green worked as a Small Business Advisor for USAID’s Bureau for Europe and the New Independent States, conducting designs, evaluations, assessments, and financial analyses of micro and small enterprise development projects in Ukraine and other countries in the region. She also worked on long-term USAID private-sector development projects in the mid-1990s in Russia for Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu International. Karl Jackson Karen Macours
Karen Macours is an Assistant Professor of International Economics. Her areas of expertise are Eastern Europe; Latin America; Central America and the Caribbean; developing nations; economics; economic development; international economic issues and globalization; rural development. She a former consultant to FAO, USAID and the Guatemalan Government; research associate with the Research Group on Food Policy, Transition and Development at the KU Leuven in Belgium; fluent in Dutch, French, German and Spanish; Ph.D., agricultural and resource economics, University of California at Berkeley. She has published articles on agricultural reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, the former Soviet Union and East Asia in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Economic Development and Cultural Change, and the Journal of Comparative Economics. Thomas O. Melia
Mr. Melia is Deputy Executive Director of Freedom House, Overseeing the production of all Freedom House analysis; the implementation of assistance abroad; and the organization's public policy advocacy.
Melia was previously Director of Research at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy at Georgetown University, where he has taught several graduate-level courses on democracy promotion issues.
For more than a dozen years, Melia held senior posts at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI). From 1998 to 2001, he was Vice President for Programs. Mr. Melia was Associate Director of the Free Trade Union Institute of the AFL-CIO (1986 to 1988) and Legislative Assistant for foreign policy to U.S. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) (1980-1986).
Melia is a graduate of The Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) in Washington, DC, and of The Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD. He has published in the Journal of Democracy, The American Interest, Washington Post, Middle East Policy Journal, The New Republic and other publications. He has been interviewed on CNN International, BBC, MSNBC, Voice of America, and other television and radio programs. He is co-editor of Today's American; How Free? (2008), Published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. Patricia Moser
Ms. Moser has more than 25 years experience in advocacy for and implementation of international health development activities. Since 2006, she has served as health advisor, and, currently, Director for Health for the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Ms. Moser worked 10 years with the Asian Development Bank, both in the Washington, DC office and at ADB headquarters in Manila, Philippines. She served as Deputy Director of the North American Representative Office, as senior advisor to the ranking vice-president, and as an economist and mission leader for health and social protection activities in a number of countries in Central and South-East Asia.
Prior to her work at ADB, Ms. Moser was a Foreign Service Officer with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), holding health and family planning management positions in Thailand, Jamaica and the Philippines. She has also worked with NGOs and government organizations in advocating for international woman's health. Ms. Moser is currently completing her PhD in Institutional Economics at George Mason University. She holds a Masters Degree in Economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a B.A. from Duke University. Maria Otero
Ms. Otero is president and CEO of ACCION International, a U.S. non-profit devoted to microenterprise development. Her responsibilities there include organizational development, fundraising, and congressional relations. Skilled in governance, program development, training, and microenterprise development, Otero has extensive experience in Latin America, Africa and Asia. Otero was appointed by President Clinton to serve as Chair of the Board of the Inter-American Foundation, and has also served on numerous other boards, including Bread for the World and the Women's Leadership Conference. She holds an M.A. in international studies from SAIS. Otero co-teaches Microfinance and Development.
Elisabeth Rhyne
Dr. Rhyne is senior vice president of ACCION International, managing its Research, Development and Policy Department. Ms. Rhyne directs ACCION's research efforts to develop new financial products for the poor, including rural lending products, housing credit and microinsurance. She is also leading ACCION's initiative in sub-Saharan Africa. Ms. Rhyne's experience in microfinance includes her work as Director of the Office of Microenterprise Development at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from 1994 to 1998, where she developed and managed USAID's microenterprise program. Prior to joining ACCION, she worked as an independent microfinance consultant based in Mozambique. Ms. Rhyne's consulting assignments have included advising several government banks on microfinance policy, as well as conducting diagnostic assessments and business planning for more than 10 microfinance institutions. Ms. Rhyne earned a master's and Ph.D. in public policy from Harvard University. She holds a bachelor's degree in history and humanities from Stanford University. Professor Rhyne co-teaches Advanced Topics in Microfinance with Monica Brand. Raul Roman
Raul Roman is a senior project manager at InterMedia, a leading international organization that provides research and strategy consulting services to the international development community. Before joining InterMedia in 2007, he served as a consultant for international organizations (such as UNESCO, FAO, USAID, and the Rockefeller Foundation, among others), governments (such as Taiwan and El Salvador), corporations (such as Microsoft), and research institutions (such as the Research Center for Nutrition and Development in Mexico and the Institute for Peruvian Studies in Lima). Roman has worked in over 20 countries across Asia, Latin America, and Africa. His work has mostly focused on the design of communication strategies, especially in rural development, and the innovative uses of new information and communication technologies for development goals across a wide range of practice areas (i.e., governance, education, health, and agriculture). Roman has published widely on these topics in professional and academic journals, and regularly presents his work at meetings and conferences. Roman earned MS and PhD degrees in Communication and International Development at Cornell University. After graduating from Cornell, he held research and teaching positions at the Center for Internet Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, and at the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles. At SAIS, he teaches Practical Research Methods for International Development. Preeti Shroff-Mehta
Dr. Shroff-Mehta directs Civil Society and Social Change Programs at World Learning for International Development. She has fifteen years of leadership experience in international development education research and teaching, civil society and community capacity building, and non-government organization (NGO) training in South Asia, Europe and North America. She has worked with marginal caste groups and tribal communities in India and rural communities in Canada. She specializes in knowledge management, learning innovations and capacity building in development organizations and public sector institutions.
Dr. Shroff-Mehta has managed higher Education and International Development projects with the World Bank, Ford Foundation, USA; Ontario Ministry for Community Economic Development, Canada; OXFAM, England; Social and Health Ministry, Government of Finland; Misereor, Germany and UNICEF, India.
She holds a B.A in Economics from Gujaral University, M.A. degree in Development Studies from the University of Sussex and in Urban planning from SUNY/Buffalo, and a Ph.D. in Comparative and Global Education from SUNY/Buffalo. She teaches Policy Advocacy: Demand-Driven Governance. Dorothy Sobol
Dorothy Sobol is the coordinator of the Emerging Markets Specialization and Senior Adjunct Professor of the International Economics and Emerging Markets. She joined the SAIS faculty in 1998 as a professorial Lecturer and assumed her current position in January 2001. Dr. Sobol worked at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York from 1978 to 2006, focusing primarily on the emerging markets and international financial markets. During her time there, she founded and was the editor of Current Issues in Economics and Finance. She also served as Assistant to the President (1992-1993) and Assistant Secretary of the Bank (1992-1994). From 1985-1987, Dr. Sobol was on leave of absence to serve as Senior Fellow in Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. She retired from the Bank as vice president in the Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. She retired from the Bank as vice president in the Research and Market Analysis Group in June 2006. Dr. Sobol is the author of articles on foreign ownership of U.S. Treasury Securities, private capital flows to central and eastern Europe, prospects for LDC debt management, a perspective on the LDC debt crisis, the financial role of the IMF in promoting adjustment with growth, currency diversification and LDC debt, the SDR in private international finance, and the substitution account. She holds a B.A. degree from Bryn Mawr College and a PhD. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, where she is currently chair of the Annual Fund and co-chair of the capital campaign. She teaches Financial Sector Developments in Emerging Markets and Financial Globalization, Currency Crises, and the Emerging Markets. Victor Tanner
Mr. Tanner has designed and implemented emergency relief programs in Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans since 1988 for Médecins Sans Frontières, the International Rescue Committee, Save the Children (UK), U.N. agencies and USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA). His main research focus is the political repercussions of humanitarian assistance. He led a one-year review of the political context of OFDA’s programs in the former Yugoslavia. He is currently assisting USAID to structure its emergency relief and rehabilitation response in Afghanistan. Mr. Tanner received his M.A. in international relations from SAIS. He teaches Humanitarianism, Aid and Politics. Melissa Thomas (on sabbatical for Spring 2009)
Melissa Thomas is an Associate Professor of International Development. She is an expert in issues of governance, corruption, rule of law and aid effectiveness. Dr. Thomas has worked with the World Bank, USAID, DFID, the U.S. Department of Defense, and counterpart governments, providing policy and technical advice, conducting negotiations, monitoring the implementation of conditions, designing and managing technical assistance projects, and conducting qualitative and quantitative studies. Her current research focus is the operation of neopatrimonial states and U.S. foreign policy towards those states. Thomas holds a B.A. in computer and information science from the University of California, Santa Cruz; a J.D. from the University of California, Berkeley; and a Ph.D. in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. She teaches Delivering Development Assistance, Corruption in Developing and Transition Countries, Law and Development, as well as co-teaching Introduction to Development. Peter Veit
Peter Veit is Senior Fellow and Regional Director for Africa at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. He is an environmental governance expert with more than 25 years of development experience working throughout Africa and parts of Asia. Veit currently leads WRI's Equity, Poverty and Environment Initiative which seeks to promote environmental justice by ensuring the government policies result in fair distributions of environmental costs and benefits. He also conducts policy research on property rights and public-private land transfers, and on legislative representation of poor people and local environmental needs. His previous work focused on strengthening environmental procedural rights, democratizing environmental decentralizations, promoting community-based natural resource management, strengthening public interest environmental law organizations and other democratic institutions in Africa, and supporting pro-poor regional bodies and global instruments. He co-teaches Issues in Rural Development with Marc Cohen. Michel Welmond
Michel Welmond is responsible for the education portfolio for Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia at the World Bank. He has worked for over 15 years in support of education systems in developing countries, with a focus on primary education, vocational training, teacher management, and community participation. He has extensive experience in the development, management, and evaluation of education programs and projects that have focused on systemic educational reforms, teacher management and support, the improvement of educational quality, and decentralization. He has also provided technical assistance in the areas of education reform support, with a special emphasis on donor coordination, evaluation and tracking of reform efforts (particularly through conditionality), policy dialogue with education officials, and the involvement of nongovernmental stakeholders in sector reforms (e.g., parents associations). In addition, he has served as a consultant in the areas of education finance, providing training in strategic management and planning for education and donor officials. At SAIS, Professor Welmond co-teaches the course Education Policy and Practice In the Developing World. Bridget Welsh Victoria White
Victoria White has ten years of professional microfinance experience. Through her work with leading microfinance support institutions, ACCION International and CALMEADOW, and USAID’s Office of Microenterprise Development, she has provided technical assistance to over twenty microfinance institutions in over a dozen countries in Africa. Her technical areas include: transformation planning, financial projection modeling, financial management, and management information systems. She currently serves as Vice President and Project Manager for ACCION International’s International Operations Department. Prior to working in microfinance, Ms. White was a bank examiner with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. Ms. White holds a BA in Political Science and French from Wellesley College and an MA in International Economics from SAIS. She co-teaches Microfinance and Development with Maria Otero. Staff Mary Roes
Program Coordinator, International Development Program Mary is a graduate of the SAIS, IDEV Program where she studied Africa and Human RIghts. Prior to SAIS, she worked for the International Rescue Committee in Seattle as a volunteer coordinator/develpment assistant. She holds a BA in Psychology from Gonzaga University.
Merrily Powers
Program Assistant, International Development Program
Merrily comes to the IDEV Program from the International Economics Program at SAIS. She has over 14 years experience in the academic administrative field. Having worked, as well as attended various institutions as Michigan Technological University, Valdosta State University and Anne Arundel Community College. Student Advisors
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