Leadership

Rebecca Krzywda

USAID/Southern Africa Deputy Mission Director

Rebecca O. Krzywda is a Senior Foreign Service Officer and joined USAID/Southern Africa as Deputy Mission Director in August 2016.  Prior to arriving in Pretoria, Ms. Krzywda served as the Controller at USAID/Pakistan from 2015 to 2016 and was the Controller at USAID/Serbia from 2011 to 2015. Since joining USAID as a Foreign Service Officer in 1999, Ms. Krzywda has worked in USAID missions in the Philippines, Nigeria, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Serbia and Pakistan. 

Ms. Krzywda received a Bachelor's degree in Business and a Master’s degree in Accounting from the George Washington University in Washington, D.C., and is a Certified Public Accountant. 

Kevin Sturr

USAID/Southern Africa Deputy Mission Director

Kevin Sturr has spent 19 years as an FSO with USAID, beginning at USAID Senegal in Dakar serving as the West Africa Deputy Regional Director of Food for Peace. He subsequently served at the Missions in Harare, Dhaka, and Kinshasa, leading the Democracy, Human Rights and Governance (DRG ) Offices. In Washington, he has served as the Chief of the first Human Rights Division at USAID, in the DRG Center in the Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian Assistance (DCHA ) Bureau, Coordinator for the Young African Leaders’ Presidential Initiative (YALI), Senior Advisor in the Africa Bureau front office and Chief of the Division of Economic Growth, Environment and Agriculture (EGEA) in the Office of Sustainable Development (AFR/SD).

Before joining the Foreign Service in 2001, Kevin was a field representative for USAID’s Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) in Mauritania and Mali, and a Peace Corps volunteer in the Mopti Region of Mali. Born in Evanston, Illinois and a native of New York, Kevin received a B.A. in Political Science from Columbia University, studied law at City University of New York (CUNY), received an M.P.H. in International Health from Tulane University and a Masters in National Security and Resource Strategy from the National Defense University, Eisenhower School. He is fluent in French and speaks two Sahelian languages (Bambara and Fulfulde/Pulaar).

Kevin is married and the father of three daughters.