Donaldo
Hart
is the founder and principal of Duca Consulting
International. From 1972–88 he owned and
managed several small businesses in the U.S. and Brazil. In
1989 he served as Private Enterprise Officer for the
USAID mission in Burundi and since that time has
worked in nearly thirty countries throughout Africa, Latin
America, Asia, and the Middle
East. Donaldo is bilingual in English and Portuguese
and professionally fluent in French and Spanish. A graduate of
Dartmouth College, he was awarded the Ph.D. degree
by the University of Rochester and a diploma from
the Executive Program of the Columbia University Graduate School
of Business.
Judy
Markoe
has had a successful career in the marketing of corporate
and nonprofit institutions for thirty years. A former director of
marketing and public relations at the universities of Houston,
Rhode Island, and Maryland, Judy was Vice President for Marketing
and Communications of the American Association of University Women
from 1986–98. She has special expertise in branding for
public-sector and nonprofit entities. Recently, as a judge for the
American Marketing Association/DC "M" Awards, she presented the
"Marketer of the Year" Award to USAID for the agency’s branding
campaign. She is a former president of the Ad Club of Washington.
Through her firm, Big Picture Marketing, she collaborates
frequently with Duca Consulting International. Judy has an M.S.
from SUNY/Albany.
Beverly
Bachemin
served as a program manager and policy analyst for over
thirty years at the Department of Labor’s Office of Policy,
Research and Legislation. During the course of a distinguished
career, she designed and managed nationwide research, evaluation,
and demonstration projects that include a $250 million youth
program and $180 million of congressional mandated programs. Since
her retirement in 2001, Beverly has consulted for private
clients and for the DOL in rural development, job training, and
education programs. She produced a manual for private contractors
for managing U.S. Government resources. For the DOL she continues
to conduct contractor debriefings, negotiate grants and contracts,
and analyze proposals. Beverly is a graduate of Southern
University/Straights Business
College.
Paul
Fekete
has provided counsel on international trade policy matters
to government ministries, private companies, and research
institutes since 1984. In addition to his consulting activities,
he is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Maryland's University
College where
he teaches graduate courses on international economics and trade
policy. As a consultant he has worked in Africa, Asia, Central
Asia, Eastern Europe, and Latin
America. He collaborates with Duca Consulting through
his own firm, Global Trade Associates. Paul is fluent in Hungarian
and enjoys a working ability in French. A graduate of Bates
College, he
received his M.A. from Johns Hopkins
(SAIS).
Nick
Kulibaba
has twenty-nine years of outstanding experience in
international economic development in virtually every geographic
region. Much of his consulting work has focused on the
agricultural sector, where he has contributed to agribusiness
growth, commodity trade, value chain development, and natural
resource management. He has also produced studies on investment
strategy and risk assessment for companies in the extraction,
petroleum, and manufacturing sectors. Nick is fluent in French and
Fulfulde and enjoys a functional command of Russian. He has a B.A.
from Allegheny College and an M.A.
equivalent diploma from the Institute for Social Anthropology of
Oxford University (UK).
Peter
Nizette
comes to Duca Consulting with thirty years of experience in
the travel and tourism sector, where he has worked in all facets
of the industry from airlines and tour operators to retail travel
agents and tourism boards. He has done destination marketing,
strategic planning, and market analysis in countries throughout
Asia, Africa, the Caribbean, Eastern Europe, South America, and the Australasia/Pacific
region. Today his emphasis is on tourism as a major contributor to
economic development and a vehicle for pro-poor policies. Peter is
a graduate of the Royal Chartered Institute of Marketing in the
U.K.
Bert
Laurent
has served as a manager, chief-of-party, and strategist in
development assistance activities for over twenty-five years. An
anthropologist by training, he has dedicated most of his
outstanding career to work in Africa and the Caribbean, where he has led projects in
small-scale enterprise development, civil society, and democracy
and governance. Known as a consensus-builder, he has built many
innovative, collaborative relationships between local and
U.S.
institutions. He has also managed small grants programs and led
project design efforts. Bert received both his B.A. and M.A.
degrees from Columbia University. He is fluent in
French, Haitian Creole, and Spanish.
Elizabeth
Adelski
is an anthropologist who has conducted nationwide household
surveys, disaster and food security assessments, rapid appraisals,
qualitative studies, and program evaluations for USAID, the World
Bank, and UN agencies throughout Africa, Latin America, and the
Caribbean. She has led research
on microenterprises and SMEs and completed evaluations in the
agribusiness and rural livelihood sectors. She has designed
performance monitoring plans as well as complex sample surveys.
Elizabeth works professionally in
English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese. She earned a B.A. from
UCLA and the doctoral degree from the University of
Kentucky.
Theodore
Lyimo
is a customs and trade facilitation expert. His thirty
years of professional experience include ten years at the WTO and
four with the SADC secretariat. He has contributed broadly to
trade and customs issues throughout Africa on international, regional, and
national levels. He has brought expertise on the WCO harmonized
classification system, ASYCUDA, trade statistics, customs
clearance, and related issues to UN, World Bank, and USAID-funded
activities. Theo is fluent in English and Swahili and commands a
working knowledge of French. He is a law graduate of the
University of Dar es
Salaam.
Veronique
Praz
enjoys over twenty years of professional experience in
product marketing for international companies as well as in export
promotion, social marketing, and grant management in development
assistance activities. She has worked extensively in Latin
America, Europe, and sub-Saharan and North Africa. Her understanding of product cycles,
sales, and product image have allowed her to work in development
assistance in both the economic and the social sectors. Veronique
is bilingual in English and French and professionally fluent in
Portuguese and Spanish. She received a B.A. from Georgetown and an M.A. from American
University.
Ayman
Zohry
is a professional demographer, accomplished statistician,
and recognized scholar. He has led research teams for the U.S.
Naval Medical Research Unit (NAMRU) and served as Director of
Monitoring and Evaluation for a large and complex USAID-funded
project. He has taught at the American Universities of Cairo and Beirut and published extensively
in professional journals. Currently he is studying the economic
and social impact of present-day human migrations. Fluent in
Arabic and English, Ayman holds a doctoral degree from the
University of Sussex (UK).
Mechell
Jacob
is a senior project manager with over thirty years of work
in development assistance interventions. He has worked in
twenty-five countries in Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the
Caribbean and has successfully
managed large, complex activities. His work has covered the
agriculture and rural development sectors as well as the
humanitarian and democracy and justice areas. Mechell is
professionally fluent in French and Haitian Creole and also
communicates well in Vietnamese and Thai. He holds a M.S.
from Cornell.
Trina
Rand
is an economic policy specialist with expertise in
investment promotion, international trade, competitiveness, and
corporate location benchmarking. In development assistance
activities she has consulted to USAID, the World Bank, and the IFC
and has worked in Africa, Eastern Europe, Central Asia, and the
Middle East. She has also
consulted to the Government of Quebec and to private industry.
Trina is fluent in French and has earned M.A. degrees from Johns
Hopkins (SAIS) and from the University of Cape
Town.
Victor
Hart
owns and manages Natural English, an institute established
in Brasilia for superior-quality
translations, simultaneous interpreting, and foreign language
instruction. Through his company he has done translations for
several consulting firms with USAID and World Bank contracts. He
is also an expert in relational databases and has created several
tailored programs for small businesses and projects, including one
USAID-funded activity. Victor is bilingual in English and
Portuguese and professionally fluent in French and Spanish. He is
a magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa graduate of
Williams College.
