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This is an archived USAID document retained on this web site as a matter of public record.
USAID Announces New Caucasus Regional Mission Director
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 20, 2006
Press Office: 202-712-4320
Public Information: 202-712-4810
www.usaid.gov
WASHINGTON D.C. - Randall L. Tobias, the Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and Administrator for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), officiated at the swearing in of the Caucasus Regional Mission Director, Robert J. Wilson. The Caucasus Regional Mission manages USAID programs in the countries of Georgia and Azerbaijan.
At the Caucasus Regional Mission, Mr. Wilson will be responsible for a wide variety of development programs to include economic growth, democracy building, health, energy and social development. In all, the USAID programs in these countries totaled over $83 million in fiscal year 2006.
Mr. Wilson has just completed a posting as the Deputy Mission Director for Georgia and before that he was assigned as the Deputy Mission Director in Afghanistan.
His career overseas began in 1976 as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo, West Africa, where he worked with the Ministry of Rural Development. After returning home and completing graduate school, Mr. Wilson entered the Foreign Service in 1982 as an International Development Intern with USAID. Mr. Wilson's first post was in Haiti as an agricultural development officer. From there he moved to Honduras, Barbados, Peru, Mozambique and Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Georgia, where he served in various capacities within the organization.
Mr. Wilson holds a BS in history from Boston College and a Master's degree in Agricultural economics from Purdue University. He was born in Groton, Connecticut.
For more information about the USAID missions in the Caucuses, please log on to our website at www.usaid.gov.
The U.S. Agency for International Development has provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for more than 40 years.
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