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New USAID Mission Director for Madagascar


WASHINGTON, DC 20523
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2004-062

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 6, 2004

Contact: USAID Press Office

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Administrator, Andrew S. Natsios, presided at the swearing-in of Stephen Haykin as its new Mission Director to Madagascar.

As Mission Director to Madagascar, Mr. Haykin will oversee a program totaling nearly $30 million annually in development assistance focused in agriculture and private market development, health, democracy and governance, and biodiversity conservation. USAID’s new Integrated Strategic Plan for 2003 – 2008 identifies sustainable and inclusive economic development as its principal long-term objective. A crucial bi-product of the security, stability and enhanced family well-being created by this program will be to provide incentives for the protection of Madagascar’s unique and precious ecological heritage, which has suffered during recent decades due to poverty and rapid population growth.

A career foreign service officer, with more than twenty-five years of experience in international development, Mr. Haykin joined USAID in 1986 under the International Development Intern program as a Program Economist attached to the Africa Bureau. Following assignments to Kenya, Democratic Republic of Congo (Zaire), Guinea (Conakry), Ghana, and the Asia Near East Bureau, he was assigned as Supervisory Program Officer in the Europe and Eurasia Bureau. In 2000, Mr. Haykin was assigned to Madagascar as Assistant Director and he became Acting Mission Director in September 2001.

Mr. Haykin holds a bachelor’s degree from The Evergreen State College, and Master’s degrees in economics and Foreign Service from Georgetown University. He is married to the former Constantine Ikete of Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo. They have three grown children.


The U.S. Agency for International Development has provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for more than 40 years.

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