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Agency Environmental Coordinator (AEC)
Agency–wide oversight and leadership in environmental compliance.

  • Teresa Bernhard

Bureau Environmental Officers (BEO)
Primary environmental compliance decision makers and leaders for their bureaus.

  • Africa Bureau – Brian Hirsch
    • Regional Environmental Compliance Advisor – Arianne Neigh
    • Regional Environmental Compliance Advisor – Mallory Orme
    • Regional Environmental Compliance Advisor – Odiney Alvarez Campos
    • Senior Environment Advisor, Africa Trade and Investment Initiative – Stacy Crevello
  • Asia Bureau – William Gibson
    • Deputy Bureau Environmental Officer – Andrei Barannik and Shamenna Gall
  • Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization – Brian Ward
  • Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation – Carol Zurawski
  • Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance – Erika Clesceri
  • Bureau for Policy, Programming and Learning – Dennis Durbin
  • Bureau for Resilience and Food Security – Bill Thomas
  • Europe and Eurasia Bureau – Poojan Tripathi
    • Environment and Climate Advisor – TBD
  • Global Health Bureau – Dennis Durbin
  • Latin America and the Caribbean Bureau – Betzy Colon
  • Management Bureau – Dennis Durbin
  • Middle East Bureau – Jeff Ploetz
  • Office of Human Resources – Dennis Durbin

Office of Environmental and Social Risk Management (ESRM) Multilateral Development Bank (MDB) Team 
The MDB Team implements Title XIII of the International Financial Institutions Act for the Agency. Title XIII directs USAID to strengthen the environmental and social performance of MDBs in which the U.S. is a shareholder. Although this work is distinct from 22 CFR 216, it leverages the Agency's broad experience with environmental and social safeguards and involves the Agency’s environmental compliance officers in conducting pre- and post-approval field reviews (a.k.a. affirmative investigations) of projects that are particularly likely to have substantial adverse environmental or social impacts. All MDB Team field review reports and summary reports to Congress are publicly available.

  • Technical Lead – Alexis Erwin
  • Lead for Middle East, North Africa, and Latin American and the Caribbean – Alexis Erwin
  • Lead for Sub-Saharan Africa - Ray Von Culin
  • Lead for Asia - Chris Payne
  • Lead for Europe and Eurasia – Vacant

Biosafety Review Advisor 
This function supports required USAID reviews of any proposal for research, testing or open release into the environment of bioengineered organisms (commonly referred to as Genetically Engineered (GE) organisms or Genetically Modified (GM) organisms ), as required under ADS 211. This requirement applies to proposed activities in agriculture, human health and other purposes. These reviews must be conducted in advance of and used to inform preparation of the environmental impact analysis required by 22 CFR 216.

  • Biosafety Advisor – Robert Bertram

Regional Environmental Advisors (REA)
Support field offices in their regions and advise their BEOs on environmental compliance matters. Note: Not every region has an REA.

  • Asia
    • REA South and Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan/Asia (based in Washington DC) – Andrei Barannik
    • Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands (based in Bangkok, Thailand) – Shamenna Gall
  • Africa
    • East Africa (based in Nairobi, Kenya) – David Kinyua
    • West Africa (based in Accra, Ghana) – Henry Aryeeteh
    • Sahel Regional Office (based in Dakar, Senegal) – Brittany Thomas
      • Deputy – Abdourahmane N'diaye
    • Southern Africa (based in Pretoria, South Africa) – Michael Weaver
      • Deputy – Nonkululeku Khathi
  • Europe and Eurasia
    • Eastern Europe and Eurasia – Vacant
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Central America and Mexico (based in San Salvador, El Salvador) – Jeanette Normand
    • South America and Caribbean (based inDC) – Diana Shannon
  • Middle East
    • Middle East (based in Frankfurt, Germany) – Chris Schaan

Mission Environmental Officers (MEO)
Principle USAID environmental compliance advisors within a USAID field mission.

  • Africa
    • Angola – Domingos Menezes
      • Deputy – Avindo Lopez
    • Benin – Ayoubah Kanneh
      • Henry Aryeetey
    • Botswana – Mercy Motladiile
      • Deputy – Segametsi Duge
    • Burkina Faso – Abdourahmane Ndiaye
    • Burundi – Jean Damascene Nyamwasa
      • Deputy – Chantal Ninterestse
    • Cameroon – Vacant
    • Cape Verde – Henry Aryeetey
    • CAR – Diane-Elizabeth Mbanzidi
      • Deputy – Sabiti Kalindula
    • Chad – Abdourahmane Ndiaye
    • Cote D’Ivoire – William Coulibaly
    • Congo – Diane-Elizabeth Mbanzidi
      • Deputy – Sabiti Kalindula
    • Comoros – Salohy Soloarivelo R
    • Democratic Republic of the Congo – Diane-Elizabeth Mbanzidi
      • Deputy – Sabiti Kalindula
    • Djibouti – Yitayew Abebe
      • Deputy – Nassar Abdi
    • Eritrea – David Kinyua
    • eSwatini – Nonkululeku Khathi
    • Ethiopia – Yitayew Abebe
      • Deputy – Dubale Admasu
    • Equatorial Guinea - Henry Aryeetey
    • Gabon – Henry Aryeetey
    • Gambia – Abdourahmane Ndiaye
    • Ghana – Gloria Odoom
      • Deputy – Daniel Baako
    • Guinea – Ibrahim Fofanah
      • Deputy – Mamy Keita
    • Guinea Bissau – Henry Aryeetey
    • Kenya – Wilkister Magangi
      • Deputy – Enock Kanyanya
    • Lesotho – Nonkululeku Khathi
    • Liberia – Kokulo Y. Yorgbor
      • Deputy – Solomon Page
    • Madagascar – Salohy Soloarivelo
      • Alt MEO – Jemima Andriamihamina
    • Malawi – Vacant (Incoming)

      • Deputy - Archanjel Chinkunda

    • Mali – Benoit Sangare
      • Deputy – Souleymane Sogoba
    • Mauritania – Abdourahmane Ndiaye
    • Mozambique – Vacant (Incoming)
    • Namibia – Vacant
    • Niger – Vacant
    • Nigeria – Isa Iyortim
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Rwanda – Jean Damascene Nyamwasa
      • Deputy – Dieudonee Kalinganire
    • Senegal – Vacant
      • Deputy – Alexander Zvinakis
    • Sierra Leone – Ibrahim Fofanah
    • Somalia – Brian Otiende
    • South Africa – Nonkululeku Khathi
    • South Sudan – Martin Sebit
    • Sudan – Amir El Tayeb
      • Deputy – Ibrahim Hamid
    • Tanzania – Dosteus Lopa
      • Deputy – Rose Kyando
    • Togo – Henry Aryeetey
    • Uganda – Jessica Okui 
      • Deputy – Rafia Usmani
    • Washington, DC (central activities) – Arianne Neigh
    • Zambia – Mwewa Katongo
    • Zimbabwe – Blessing Mutsaka
  • Asia
    • Afghanistan – TBD
    • Bangladesh – Shahpar Selim
      • Deputy – Emelda Mullick
      • Deputy – Md. Nuruzzaman
      • Deputy – Shahadat Shakil
      • Deputy – Mohammad Shahrear Farid
      • Deputy – Mahbub Zaman
      • Deputy – Sudeb Kumar Biswas
    • Burma – Myint Myint Kyu
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Cambodia – Meglim Kim
      • Deputy – Andrea Pavlik
    • Central Asian Republics (Kazakhstan, Tajikistan and Turkmenistan) – Nina Kavetskaya
      • Deputy – Aigul Berdygulova
    • India –Monali Zeya Hazra
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Indonesia – Putu Kurniawan
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Kyrgyzstan – Zaur Bostanov
    • Mongolia – Marian Cruz
      • Deputy – John Piggot
    • Nepal – Netra Narayan Sharma, Deepana Shanthan
      • Deputy – Travis Guymon
    • Pakistan – Mohsin Rose and Mohammad Anwar Afridi
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Philippines – Marian Cruz
      • Deputy – John Piggot
    • Regional Development Mission/Pacific Islands – John Piggot
      • Marian Cruz – Deputy
    • Regional Development Mission/Asia (RDM/A) – Pornpun Pinweha
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Sri Lanka – Gayan Subasinghe
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Timor Leste – Flavia Araujo da Silva
      • Deputy – Josefina Bakhita Soares
    • Uzbekistan – Timur Ibragimov
    • Vietnam – Thang Nguyen
      • Deputy – Vacant
  • Europe and Eurasia
    • Albania – Vacant
    • Armenia – Marina Vardanyan
      • Deputy – Adam Stefan
    • Azerbaijan – Tamilla Mammodova
      • Deputy – Gocha Lobzhanidze
    • Belarus
    • Bosnia/Herzegovina – Mirela Hasimbegovic
    • Georgia and Azerbaijan (Caucasus) –Gocha Lobzhanidze
      • Deputy – Lauren Russell
    • Kosovo – Perihane Ymeri-Ustaibo
      • Deputy – Edmond Shyti
    • Macedonia – Ivica Vasev
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Moldova
    • Serbia – Ivan Vukojevic
    • Ukraine
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Barbados/Eastern Southern Caribbean (based in Barbados) – Nikki Hassell
      • Mansfield Blackwood
    • Brazil – Felix Aponte-Gonzalez
      • Deputy – Patricia Benthien 
    • Colombia – Maria Elena Santana
      • Deputy – Adriana Silva
    • Dominican Republic – Francis Morales
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Ecuador – Vacant
      • Deputy – Hugo Arnal
    • El Salvador – Fatima Perez
      • Deputy – Rosamaria Colorado
    • El Salvador (Regional) – Fatima Perez
      • Deputy – Margarita Diaz
    • Guatemala – Regina Soto
      • Deputy – Teresa Robles
    • Haiti – Abdel Abellard
      • Deputy – Cynthia Georgette Figaro
    • Honduras – Peter Hearne
      • Deputy – Sofia Mendez
    • Jamaica – Jannelle James
      • Deputy – Malden Miller
    • Mexico – Elisa Riquelme
      • Deputy – Karla Toledo
    • Nicaragua – Marcela Villagra
      • Deputy – Jackie Rojas
    • Paraguay – Shirley Zavala
    • Peru – Florencia Trama
  • Middle East
    • Algeria - Chris Schaan (REA) (MERP - Frankfurt, Germany)
    • Egypt – Soad Saada
    • Iraq – Hayder Ghanimi
    • Jordan – Haithem Ali
      • Deputy – Farid Musmar
    • Lebanon – Sana Saliba
    • Libya –  Ron "Cisco" Ruybai (MERP - Frankfurt, Germany)
    • Morocco – Fatine Bellamine
    • Syria – covered by ME REA, Chris Schaan (MERP - Frankfurt, Germany)
    • Tunisia – Youmna Fakhfakh (MEA)
    • West Bank/Gaza – Anan Masri
    • Yemen – Ron "Cisco" Ruybai (MERP - Frankfurt, Germany)
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