Mission Directors

Carl Anderson serves as the Country Representative for USAID in Benin.

Alyson McFarland is the USAID Country Representative for Burkina Faso.

Paul is a career Foreign Service Officer with over 25 years of international development experience.

Philippe Accilien is the USAID/Country Representative for USAID/Cameroon.

Les McBride is USAID's Country Representative to Chad.

Mr. John Dunlop was sworn in as Mission Director for USAID Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2022.

David Gosney began his assignment as the Mission Director for Kenya and East Africa in August 2022.

Sean Jones assumed leadership of USAID Ethiopia in July of 2019.

Ms. Kimberly Rosen currently serves as USAID's Mission Director for the bilateral program to Ghana.

Cheryl Ann Anderson was sworn in as Mission Director for USAID Guinea and Sierra Leone in June 2022.

Jim Wright was sworn in as Liberia Mission Director on July 26, 2021.

Mrs Anne Williams has been the Mission Director of USAID Madagascar since September 2022.

Miriam Lutz, Mission Director – Joined USAID/Mali in September 2021.

Lisa Washington-Sow has served as the USAID Country Manager in Mauritania since January, 2016.

Ms. Pataki was sworn in as Mission Director to Mozambique on August 12, 2021.

McDonald C. Homer is the country representative for USAID Namibia.

Maria E. Barrón currently serves as USAID's Mission Director in Niger.

On August 24, 2020, Dr. Anne Patterson was sworn in as the Mission Director of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) in Nigeria.

Jonathan Kamin began his tour as the Mission Director for Rwanda and Burundi in July 2021.

Peter Trenchard was sworn in as the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission Director for Senegal on July 31, 2019.

Ted Lawrence serves as Acting Mission Director in USAID/Somalia.

Kate Crawford joined the USAID/South Sudan team as Mission Director in September 2022.

Leslie Marbury is responsible for all USAID programming in Southern Africa, including bilateral programs in South Africa, Angola, Botswana, Namibia, Lesotho, and eSwatini, as well as programming through the region.

Veeraya (Kate) Somvongsiri, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, assumed the role of Mission Director for USAID Tanzania on July 25, 2021.

Jo Lesser-Oltheten is the mission director for USAID/West Africa.

Peter A. Wiebler was sworn in as Mission Director of USAID/Zambia in August 2022.

Sean E. Callahan is the Mission Director, USAID/Afghanistan.

Kathryn Davis Stevens serves as Mission Director for Bangladesh.

Lawrence Hardy II began his assignment as Regional Mission Director for USAID/Central Asia in September 2021.

Veena Reddy, a Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Agency for International Development, is USAID/India's Mission Director.

Kaya Adams has been with USAID since 1999. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service, she has served in Rwanda, the Central Asia Regional Mission based in the Republic of Kazakhstan, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Liberia, Iraq, and the Southern Africa Regional Mission based in South Africa. 

Sepideh Keyvanshad serves as the Mission Director for USAID/Nepal.

Reed Aeschliman serves as Mission Director for Pakistan.

Steve Olive is a Senior Foreign Service Officer and is the Mission Director for the Regional Development Mission for Asia.

Mr. Riley serves as the Mission Director in Tajikistan.

Ms. Zema Semunegus arrived in Timor-Leste to take up her position as USAID Mission Director on June 16, 2021.

Nino Nadiradze serves as the USAID Country Representative to Turkmenistan.

Mikaela Meredith serves as the USAID Uzbekistan Mission Director.

Aler Grubbs serves as Mission Director for Vietnam.

Mr. Michael Nehrbass assumed his position as the new Mission Director for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Azerbaijan in August 2022.

Ted Gehr is the new Mission Director of USAID/Brazil. He has worked for USAID for 27 years.

Ms. Anu Rajaraman serves as Mission Director in Colombia.

Christopher (Chris) Cushing is the Mission Director to USAID El Salvador/ECAM (El Salvador, Central America, Mexico).

Mr. Cruz-Hubbard was appointed as Mission Director to Guatemala in October of 2022.

Ms. Jaruzelski is a member of the Senior Foreign Service with the rank of Career Minister. Ms. Jaruzelski has been the Mission Director in Honduras.

Mr. Jason Fraser joined USAID/Jamaica as the Country Representative in July 2018 and will oversee a portfolio covering citizen security, health and disaster risk reduction.

Bruce Abrams takes the lead as Mission Director of the United States Agency for International Development in Mexico.

Michael Eddy was sworn in as USAID/Nicaragua Mission Director on June 3, 2022.

Jene Thomas is currently serving as the Mission Director of USAID/Peru.

Ms. Rebecca Latorraca is a Foreign Service Officer with the U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID). She began her tenure as Mission Director to the USAID/Dominican Republic in April, 2021.

Ms. Rodriguez-Perez has worked in development for over 30 years. She arrived in Asunción, Paraguay, in January 2019 as USAID’s Country Representative.

Leslie Reed serves as USAID Mission Director for Egypt

Elise Jensen was assigned as the Director of the Frankfurt Support Center on March 31, 2020.

Sherry F. Carlin currently serves as Mission Director in Jordan, where she leads a team of more than 120 employees.

Mary Eileen Devitt is the Mission Director for Lebanon.

John Cardenas holds the rank of Minister Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service and will assume duties as the USAID/Libya Country Representative.

Alisa (Aly) Mautner Cameron is the USAID Frankfurt Support Center Director and the Middle East Regional Platform (MERP) Mission Director.

Dr. Erik Janowsky is currently the Mission Director in Morocco.

Scott Dobberstein serves as the Mission Director for the U.S. Agency for International Development Mission in Tunis, Tunisia.

Amy Tohill-Stull serves as the Mission Director to the USAID/West Bank and Gaza Mission

Kimberlee Bell is a Career Member of the Foreign Service at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID).