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

  • AEC – Teresa Bernhard
  • Deputy AEC – Jeff Ploetz

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 – David Kinyua
    • Senior Environment Advisor, Africa Trade and Investment Initiative – Stacy Crevello
  • Asia Bureau – William Gibson
    • Deputy Bureau Environmental Officer – Andrei Barannik
  • Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization – Brian Ward
  • Europe and Eurasia Bureau – Poojan Tripathi
    • Environment and Climate Advisor – Vacant
  • Global Health Bureau – Dennis Durbin
  • Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance – Erika Clesceri
  • Bureau for Inclusive Growth, Partnerships, and Innovation – Carol Zurawski
    • Environmental Compliance Advisor – Odiney Alvarez-Campos
  • Latin America and the Caribbean Bureau – Betzy Colon
  • Management Bureau – Dennis Durbin
  • Middle East Bureau – Alona Bachi
  • Bureau for Planning, Learning, and Resource Management – Dennis Durbin
  • Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security – Bill Thomas
  • 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 (Out of office on secondment)

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

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.

  • Africa
    • East Africa (based in Nairobi, Kenya) – Vacant (Acting – 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) – Jeremy Boly
      • Deputy – Nonkululeku Khathi
  • Asia
    • South and Central Asia, Afghanistan and Pakistan  (based in Washington, DC) – Andrei Barannik
    • Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands (based in Bangkok, Thailand) – Ratchada (Tarn) Arpornsilp
  • 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 – Nascimento Soares
    • Benin – Ayoubah Kanneh
    • Botswana – Mercy Motladiile
      • Deputy – Segametsi Duge
    • Burkina Faso – Abdourahmane N’diaye
    • Burundi – Vacant
      • Deputy – Chantal Ninterestse
    • Cameroon – Zacheaus Zeh Akey
    • Cape Verde – Henry Aryeetey
    • Central African Republic – Diane-Elizabeth Mbanzidi
      • Deputy – Sabiti Kalindula
    • Chad – Abdourahmane N’diaye
    • 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 – Vacant
    • Guinea Bissau – Henry Aryeetey
    • Kenya – Wilkister Magangi
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Lesotho – Nonkululeku Khathi
    • Liberia – Kokulo Yorgbor
      • Deputy – Solomon Page
    • Madagascar – Salohy Soloarivelo R
      • Deputy MEO – Jemima Andriamihamina
    • Malawi – Christopher Manda

      • Deputy – Archanjel Chinkunda

    • Mali – Benoit Sangare
      • Deputy – Souleymane Sogoba
    • Mauritania – Abdourahmane N’diaye
    • Mozambique – Eduardo Langa
      • Deputy – Luis Correia
    • Namibia – Lee-Anne Prinzonsky
    • Niger – Abdourahmane N’diaye
    • Nigeria – Isa Iyortim
      • Deputy – Kohol Shiedu
    • Rwanda – Vacant
      • Deputy – Dieudonee Kalinganire
    • Senegal – Vacant
      • Deputy – Alexander Zvinakis
    • Sierra Leone – Ibrahim Fofanah
    • Somalia – Brian Otiende
    • South Africa – Nonkululeku Khathi
    • South Sudan – Lokosang Lemi
    • Sudan – Amir El Tayeb
      • Deputy – Ibrahim Hamid
    • Tanzania – Dosteus Lopa
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Togo – Henry Aryeetey
    • Uganda – Jessica Okui 
      • Deputy – Doreen Tukezibwa
    • Washington, DC (central activities) – Arianne Neigh
    • Zambia – Mwewa Katongo
    • Zimbabwe – Rufaro Merlyn Mavhera
  • Asia
    • Afghanistan – Vacant
    • Bangladesh – Shahpar Selim
      • Deputy – Tarek Ahmed
      • Deputy – Md. Nuruzzaman
      • Deputy – Shahadat Shakil
      • Deputy – Mohammad Shahrear Farid
      • Deputy – Mahbub Zaman
      • Deputy – Sudeb Kumar Biswas
    • Burma – Myint Myint Kyu
      • Deputy – Khun Thein Soe
    • Cambodia – Meglim Kim
      • Deputy – Andrea Pavlik
    • Central Asia Regional – Nina Kavetskaya
      • Deputy – Aigul Berdygulova
    • India – Monali Zeya Hazra
      • Deputy – Laia Domenech
    • Indonesia – Bonifasius (Lody) Maturbongs
      • Deputy – Putu Kurniawan
    • Kyrgyzstan – Zaur Bostanov
    • Mongolia – Marian Cruz Navata
      • Deputy – John Piggott
    • Nepal – Netra Narayan Sharma and Deepana Shanthan
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Pakistan – Muhammad Nawaz and Mohammad Anwar Afridi
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Philippines – Paul Brown
      • Deputy – Marian Cruz Navata
    • Regional Development Mission/Pacific Islands – John Piggott
      • Marian Cruz Navata – Deputy
    • Regional Development Mission/Asia (RDM/A) – Ratchada (Tarn) Arpornsilp
      • Deputy – Ami Cobb
    • Sri Lanka – Gayan Subasinghe
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • Tajikistan – Nina Kavetskaya
    • Timor Leste – Flavia Araujo da Silva
      • Deputy – Josefina Bakhita Soares
    • Uzbekistan – Timur Ibragimov
    • Vietnam – Thang Nguyen
      • Deputy – Vacant
  • Europe and Eurasia
    • Albania – Alma Kospiri
    • Armenia – Simon Sargysan
      • Deputy – Arthur Drampyan
    • Azerbaijan – Tamilla Mammodova
    • Belarus
    • Bosnia/Herzegovina – Anela Semic
      • Deputy – Anastasia Buyanova 
    • Georgia – Gocha Lobzhanidze
    • Kosovo – Perihane Ymeri-Ustaibo
      • Deputy – Edmond Shyti
    • Moldova – Constantin Mihailescu
    • North Macedonia – Ivica Vasev
      • Deputy – Kreshnik Grubi 
    • Serbia – Ivan Vukojevic
    • Ukraine 
  • Latin America and the Caribbean
    • Barbados/Eastern Southern Caribbean – Nikki Hassell
      • Mansfield Blackwood
    • Brazil – Felix Aponte-Gonzalez
      • Deputy – Patricia Benthien 
    • Colombia – Maria Elena Santana
      • Deputy – Adriana Silva
    • Dominican Republic – Francis Morales
    • Ecuador – Jennifer Karanian
      • Deputy – Vacant
    • El Salvador (Bilateral) – 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 – Vacant
    • Paraguay – Shirley Zavala
    • Peru – Florencia Trama
  • Middle East
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