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Mary Rowen


Mary Rowen is a Wildlife and Biodiversity Advisor on the Global Environment Center's Biodiversity Team. Mary is a wildlife ecologist specializing in semi-arid and arid ecosystems. She started at USAID as an AAAS fellow in 1997. In November 2000, she joined USAID as a University RSSA. Mary is CTO for The Nature Conservancy and the African Wildlife Foundation programs under USAID's Global Conservation Program and for the BIOFOR IQC. Mary also works on issues concerning the U.N. Convention to Combat Desertification.


John Smith-Sreen

John Smith-Sreen is an Environment Officer on his way to his first USAID assignment in New Delhi, India. He has lived and worked overseas for seventeen years including two years working with NGOs in India during the early 1990's. Much of this work has focused on small-scale agriculture and community-based natural resource management particularly in Central Africa, where he lived for nine years. He has worked with water resources in the State of Michigan, as well as in Africa, and Asia. John's educational background includes a BSc in Biology from Radford University, an MSc in Natural Resources from Michigan State University, and doctoral studies in agroforestry at Michigan State.


Allen Eisendrath

Allen Eisendrath is a senior finance specialist with extensive experience in utility privatization, economic regulation and infrastructure finance. Dr. Eisendrath has worked as a utility regulatory, finance and privatization specialist on projects in Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, the Marshall Islands, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, and Togo. His specializations include regulatory issues in water, sanitation and electricity utility privatization, design of bidding and bid evaluation conditions for infrastructure services, and financial structuring for transactions. He is currently a senior advisor to the Government of Karnataka on electricity privatization, and is the economic and regulatory advisor to the IFC for the Lagos State water concession transaction.


Verne Schneider

As Chief of the International Water Resources Branch, Mr. Schneider develops and manages water resources programs in United Arab Emirates, Cyprus, Middle East (Middle East Peace Process), Honduras and Guatemala, as well as Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and various African countries. He also serves as Deputy Program Manager for the USGS Hurricane Mitch program. Mr. Schneider has also conducted research and developments activities on the flow in open channels, local scour, laboratory and field investigations on multidimensional flow in open channels, stream flow measurements under difficult conditions, and hydrologic hazards assessment. He has co-authored 34 publications and presented papers at National and International meetings, and served on various committees of the American Society of Civil Engineers including chairman of the Surface Water Committee of the Irrigation and Drainage Division. Internationally, he has served as WMO Rapporteur for Intercomparison of Hydrometric Instruments for the World Meteorological Organization, Commission for Hydrology, Rapporteur for Standardization and Technical Regulations, WMO CHy VIII, and U. S. Member of the Commission for Hydrology since 1986 and member of the US delegation for the WMO Congress since 1988. He was the principal US delegate to the International Organization of Standardization Technical Committee 113.

Mr. Schneider has a B.S. in Civil Engineering, Valparaiso University, Valparaiso, a M.S. in Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, and a Ph.D in Civil Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado.


Dr. Christopher Moore

CDR is an international collaborative decision making and conflict management firm, located in Boulder, Colorado. Dr. Moore is an internationally recognized conflict manager, facilitator, dispute systems designer, and the author of the major text on mediation, The Mediation Process: Practical strategies for resolving conflict. He has worked in over 28 countries to help resolve disputes over water, natural resource conservation, governance and ethnic/religious relations. A number of these projects, including the Fostering Resolution of Water Disputes Project (FORWARD), have been supported by USAID.


Bailey Green

Franklin Bailey Green is Co-Founder and Vice President of Oswald Green, LLC, an environmental technology, R&D, and engineering services company that specializes in natural systems for wastewater treatment and in water reclamation and reuse. Over the past several years, Dr. Bailey Green has been involved in the planning and design of several wastewater facility projects. In Varanasi, India Oswald Green, LLC, through the support of USAID/RUDO and the U.S.-Asia Environmental Partnership (USAEP) Program, worked with the City of Varanasi and its most prominent environmental NGO, the Sankat Mochan Foundation (SMF), to improve sanitation and river water quality in the sacred Ganges. This was done by using an innovative wastewater treatment technology known as the Advanced Integrated Wastewater Pond Systems® or AIWPS® Technology. He recently returned from India where he presented with SMF and the City of Varanasi before the Planning Commission and the Ministry of Environment and Forests regarding the wastewater infrastructure project proposed for Varanasi.

Dr. Green is also a Research Engineer at the University of California, Berkeley and has published widely in area of municipal, industrial, and agricultural wastewater treatment, and the comparative energetics and carbon management potentials of various wastewater treatment technologies. He recently presented at the International Energy Agency's workshop on Microalgal Biofixation of CO2 held in Rome, Italy. He earned the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in the Energy & Resources Group (ERG) at the University of California, Berkeley, the M.Div degree from Yale University Divinity School, and the B.A. and M.A. degrees from Wake Forest University. He has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean with and for a variety of governmental, non-governmental, donor, and development agencies in the areas of sustainable sanitation, water resource management, and agriculture over the past 20 years.
Mario Kerby

Mario Kerby is Chief of Party of the Morocco Water Ressources Sustainability Project (WRS). Mr. Kerby has been heading this project since 1996. WRS is implementing three pilot activities in the water sector in Morocco: a wastewater treatment and reuse project, a chromium recycling project, and a soil erosion control project. In addition, WRS is assisting the Moroccan Ministry of Environment and other institutions in implementing policy reforms in the water sector. Prior to joining the WRS project, Mr. Kerby was vice-president at ICF Consulting where he managed programs in water protection, hazardous waste management, and environmental institutional development. Mr. Kerby holds a B.A and an M.A in Economics, both from American University. Mr. Kerby is fluent in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, and Creole.


Robert Bastian

Robert Bastian is a Senior Environmental Scientist with the Office of Wastewater Management (OWM) at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C. He has also served as Chief of the Technology Review Section and Acting Chief of the Performance Assurance Branch in OWM. His responsibilities include dealing with numerous wastewater and biosolids management issues associated with POTWs, such as wastewater reuse and disinfection, natural biological waste treatment technologies (land treatment, constructed wetlands, ponds, etc.). He coordinated the development of EPA's Guidelines for Water Reuse issued in Sept 1992. Mr. Bastian is also actively involved in OWM's efforts to address energy conservation, toxics control, and hazardous waste/CERCLA related issues associated with POTWs. Mr. Bastian has been with EPA since 1973 (including several years under an interagency agreement from the Army Corps of Engineers to Region V), serving in numerous technical assistance roles to various programs in the Office of Water.

He has published and presented numerous papers on the water and biosolids reuse, land treatment, and other natural biological waste management concepts, marine discharge alternatives, energy production and recovery from wastes, and sewage sludge (biosolids) management. Mr. Bastian has also worked on radioisotope cycling and ecology as a part of his continued involvement in a research effort to monitor the long-term effects of the atomic testing program in the South Pacific.

He earned his BS and MS degrees in Biology, Mathematics and Environmental Sciences at Bowling Green State University (Ohio). He is a member of numerous scientific and professional societies, and maintains a strong interest in agriculture, aquaculture, forestry, land reclamation, wetlands management, and the biological aspects of waste management.


Curt Barrett

Curt Barrett is a hydrologist with 28 years at the NWS and expert on hydrologic forecast and warning system technology that is operational in the U.S. and currently being deployed in many countries. Currently, he is the principle manager of NWS hydrometeorological Technology Transfer projects within the International Activities office of the National Weather Service.
He is the Department of Commerce Manager for the $17 Million Hurricane MITCH Reconstruction project now in full implementation in Central America.

Mr. Barrett has Directed hydrometeorological projects for the Nile River in Egypt (1990-99), The Panama Canal (1993-94), the Huai River in China (1993-94), and is currently managing implementation of an operational hydrologic program and associated technologies for the Czech Republic, Mexico (1996-present)and Central America

From 1989 to 1991 Mr. Barrett served as Chief Hydrologist for Handar Inc. and directed a significant effort to develop automated flood warning system ALERT software for implementation nationwide & Developed a Handbook on Automated Flood Warning Systems which is used today.

In 1986 Mr. Barett left federal service and started an operational hydrologic forecasting small business that was funded by venture capital firms in the Washington, DC area. River Services Inc. provided customized hydrologic forecasts to over 20 transportation companies, the Red Cross, Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Bureau of reclamation and many river user communities.

From 1980-1987 he assumed the NWS headquarters position as NWS Flash Flood Program Manager. During the period 1977-1980, he was the RFC Computer Hydrologist with NOAA/NWS River Forecast Center Slidell, Louisiana.

Curt received his Bachelors degree in Hydrology at the University of Arizona in 1969 and his MS degree in Water Resources Civil Engineering at Kansas University in 1974.


Maxx Dilley

Maxx Dilley is a Geographer working with the World Bank Disaster Management Facility (DMF). Prior to coming to the DMF he worked for seven years at USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance on natural and man-made disaster prevention, preparedness and relief in developing countries. Areas of technical specialization include climate and hydro-meteorological hazards, food security, and geographic information system applications in disaster management. He has designed and managed disaster mitigation programs in Africa, Latin America and Asia. Dr. Dilley holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the Pennsylvania State University and a B.A. from the University of Delaware, all in Geography. He publishes regularly and conducts professional training on topics related to disaster and risk-management and has been active in communicating disaster reduction themes to the general public.


Roberta Hilbruner

She has worked in the field of environmental communication and education for over 20 years, mostly for the US Forest Service where she won their top award for environmental interpretation. She has a BS from Oregon State and an MS from Colorado State, has been active with the National Association for Interpretation and North American Association for Environmental Education for many years, and led a national effort to revamp training for environmental communication practitioners.

Roberta has worked in China, Africa and Latin America, has produced several publications, and specializes in training and capacity-building. She currently lives in Annapolis, MD, loves to sail and kayak, and says her house is always open to anyone wandering through so give her a call and she'll take you out on the Chesapeake!


 Maria Haws

She specializes in development of marine aquaculture and coastal management in the Pacific Islands with a focus on pearl culture. She was formerly associated with the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island and continues to work with the CRC on policy and best management practices for sustainable aquaculture. She currently serves as Project Manager for the USAID/USDA Hurricane Mitch Recuperation Project, "Curriculum and Training Development for Small and Medium Shrimp Producers in Central America with an Emphasis on Best Management Practices to Guide Hurricane Mitch Recuperation." She holds a Ph.D. in Wildlife and Fisheries Sciences from Texas A&M University and has worked in Tanzania, Mexico, Central America, Ecuador, Federated States of Micronesia, Republic of the Marshall Islands and French Polynesia. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras.


James Tobey

James Tobey is an Associate Coastal Resource Manager with the Coastal Resources Center, University of Rhode Island. He works with local partners in integrated coastal management field projects in developing countries worldwide. He has worked in sustainable mariculture projects in Indonesia, Central America, Mexico and Tanzania. Prior to the Coastal Resources Center, he worked on topics of natural resource management with the Environment Directorate of the Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development in Paris. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in the Dominican Republic, and has worked with the World Bank, USDA Economic Research Service, and the President's Council on Environmental Quality.


Dr. Josette Lewis

Dr. Lewis has been with USAID for seven years. She began at USAID as a AAAS Science, Technology and Diplomacy Fellow working on farmer-participatory sustainable agriculture research. After her fellowship, Dr. Lewis managed an Israeli-Arab collaborative research grants program. For the past four years, Dr. Lewis has managed USAID's agricultural biotechnology program and served as a technical advisor to USAID on issues and policies pertaining to biotechnology. She holds B.S. in Genetics from University of California at Davis and a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology for University of California, Los Angeles.


Robert Frederick

Dr. Robert Frederick recently completed a term as Acting Deputy Director of the Washington Division of the National Center for Environmental Assessment (NCEA) in EPA's Office of Research and Development. He has served as an Assistant Center Director for research planning and a Program Manager for the Ecological Risk Assessment Research Program in NCEA. From 10/93 to 9/96, Dr. Frederick was Executive Secretary of the Biotechnology Advisory Commission (BAC) at the Stockholm Environment Institute, Stockholm, Sweden. The Commission was an independent, international group of biosafety experts who offered risk assessment advice to developing countries. While with BAC, Dr. Frederick organized and taught in six international workshops on biosafety and biodiversity in Nigeria, Argentina, Zimbabwe, Kenya, and Sweden. From 12/88 to 9/93, Dr. Frederick was a research program manager in EPA's Office of Environmental Processes and Effects Research with responsibility for the Biotechnology and Ecological Risk Assessment research programs. Before that, he was a Section Chief in the Office of Toxic Substances, Exposure Evaluation Division, Environmental Fate Section where he did risk assessments on new chemicals and microbial biotechnology products. While with EPA, Dr. Frederick has served as representative to the NIH Recombinant DNA Advisory Committee; FCCSET Biotechnology Research Subcommittee (Workgroup Chairman); US - EC Task Force on Biotechnology Research; Coordinator of Office of Science and Technology Policy crosscut on biotechnology research (FY93 and FY94); NSF Program Review Committee of Visitors; and on the International Steering Committee for the 4th International Symposium on the Biosafety Results of Field Tests of Genetically Modified Plants and Microorganisms. He has lectured on biosafety issues in many countries including China, Cameroon, Syria, Namibia, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Hungary, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, and India. His publications include over fifteen on biotechnology regulation.


Chris McGahey

Chris McGahey is a senior associate and Water Resources/Environmental Health Specialist at ARD, a private consulting firm. He is also working full-time as the Coordinator for Community-based Environmental Sanitation and Hygiene for the USAID-funded Environmental Health Project (EHP). His professional and academic experiences have focused on establishing bridges among the engineering, international development, social science, and public health professions to improve health. Assignments with the firm have emphasized the design, implementation, and evaluation of participatory technical infrastructure improvements in informal urban communities.


Ron Hoffer

Ron Hoffer is a specialist in water resources management, hydrology, and environmental geology, with over 25 years of experience on the application of these disciplines to a wide range of projects and policy initiatives both in the United States and internationally. For the last 2 years, Mr. Hoffer has served as the principal technical advisor on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's drinking water improvement initiative in Central America and Africa. Projects under the initiative include facilitating water sector reform, training of specialists and decision-makers, water laboratory improvement, treatment plant optimization, and enhancing water services to the urban poor. He has also served as an advisor to the U.S. Department of State on U.S. international water policy questions. Since the passage of the 1996 Amendments to Safe Drinking Water Act, Mr. Hoffer has taken a leading role on launching and coordinating U.S. Government efforts on waterborne disease assessment and outbreak response.

From 1991 through 1998, Mr. Hoffer served as the overall water sector manager for EPA's assistance program in Eastern Europe, Russia, and Ukraine, in cooperation with the U.S. Agency for International Development. Mr. Hoffer established numerous U.S. and international partnerships, leading to the formation of one of the largest and most diverse international water programs in EPA's history. The portfolio covered infrastructure investment and planning, institution-strengthening and technology transfer, with specific projects on drinking water, wastewater, ground water protection, water management, watershed protection, and nonpoint and point source pollution control issues.

From 1984 through 1991, Mr. Hoffer served as one of the founding managers of the EPA ground-water protection program, and a leading architect of the Wellhead Protection Program in the U.S. As Chief Hydrogeologist and Director of the Technical and Regulatory Analysis staff, Mr. Hoffer was engaged in a wide range of rule-making and technical guidance actions across EPA. From 1978 to 1984, Mr. Hoffer was a consultant in environmental geology, hydrology, water resources management, and energy resources development for the MITRE Corporation (McLean, Virginia), a leading systems engineering firm. From 1973 through 1976, Mr. Hoffer worked with the solid waste disposal program of the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (Hartford, CT), as one of its first hydrogeologists.

Mr. Hoffer holds a Master of Science degree in Water Resources Management from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (1977), a Master of Science degree in Geology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst (1973) and a Bachelor of Science degree in Geology from the City College of New York (1971). He is a member of several professional associations, and is certified as a Professional Geologist by the American Institute of Professional Geologists, and as a Professional Hydrogeologist by the American Institute of Hydrology.


Nino Nadiradze

Mr. Nadiradze joined USAID in early 2000 as an environmental program assistant and specializes in environmental project management and development, sustainable resource management and manages $ 4,000,000 USAID/Caucasus contract. He has prepared environmental mpact statements for USAID projects, assisted GIOC (Georgian International Oil Company) in implementation of the host government agreement on pipeline environmental issues and managed implementation of energy efficiency projects. He has extensive knowledge of the Black Sea and Caspian Region and has conducted research on aquatic productivity.

He holds a MSc in Philology from Tbilisi State University and has studied Hydrography at the International Maritime Academy, Italy. Prior to joining USAID he worked for the Marine Association Poseidon as well as the Georgian - American Joint Venture Communications Company.


Oliver Chapeyama

As the NRM Policy Advisor, serves as USAID/RCSA's contact with regional government and non-governmental officials responsible for environment. Responsibilities in this regard are to insure that government decision-making processes take into account environmental implications and promote regional cooperation and integration and to maintain liaison with regional NGO leaders to ensure their participation in regional programs. Supervises two Cooperative Agreements valued at US $ 13million and a Contract valued at US$ 4million. The major projects managed to date include the following:

  • Capacity building for water resources management;
  • Community involvement in wildlife and other resource management programs and the formulation and ratification of the SADC Protocol on Wildlife Management and Law Enforcement;
  • Support for the development of the SADC Protocol on Shared Watercourse Systems;
  • Support for the development of the SADC Protocol on the Environment;
  • Community participation in natural resources-based enterprises;
  • Institutional capacity building for natural resources management.

Mr. Chapeyama has a M.Sc., Rural and Regional Resources Planning, University of Aberdeen, Scotland and B.A in Geography from the University of Rhodesia (Zimbabwe).


Carin Bisland

Carin Bisland is the Associate Director for Ecosystem Management at the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office. In this position, she is responsible for integrating water, air, and land resource management issues in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to restore and protect living resources and their habitats. She has been working at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office since 1991, starting as the Living Resources Subcommittee Coordinator and, in that capacity, was responsible for coordinating management and research policies and goals for living resources and habitats in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Prior to 1991, Carin worked at the EPA headquarters office during the development and expansion of the National Estuary Program where she coordinated the west coast estuary programs. She was also a researcher at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center investigating the flow of nutrients through different landscapes with a specific focus on wetlands.

Carin received her bachelor's degree in biology in 1982 from College of Wooster and her masters degree in environmental management in 1983 from the Duke University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.


Margaret Catley-Carlson

Margaret Catley-Carlson has over 35 years of international experience in a wide variety of governance, public policy, regulatory, management, economic, health, and development issues. She has been Chair, Board member and Advisor to international and national public and private groups. Catley-Carlson has extensive experience working with organizations applying science and knowledge to the better management of national and international problems in freshwater governance, health, agriculture, information management, environmental protection, international development and development finance.

In the area of water governance, Catley-Carlson has served as a Chair of both the Global Water Partnership, based in Stockholm, Sweden, and the Group Lyonnaise des Eaux: Water Resource Management Advisory Committee—Paris, France.

Cately-Carlson was President of the Population Council (1993-1998), Deputy Minister of the Canadian Department of Health and Welfare (1989-1992), President of the Canadian International Development Agency (1983-1989), and Deputy Executive Director of UNICEF (1981-1983).


Howard F. Batson

Mr. Batson is the Director of the Office of the Environment (bilateral program), United States Agency for International Development, Jamaica-Caribbean He has a careen in agriculture and natural resources management that spans twenty years and eleven Caribbean countries. This includes 13 years with the United States Agency for International Development managing development assistance projects. His project and program experience includes agricultural research and extension, agricultural production and marketing, trade policy, natural resources management, and disaster rehabilitation/mitigation. Presently managing a US$20 million environmental portfolio in Jamaica. Emphasis on community-based natural resources management, the protection of coastal zone resources and coastal water quality, improving the operations and management of municipal wastewater systems, the management of parks and protected areas, watershed management, and a program of environmental audits and management systems for sustainable tourism. He has B.Sc. and M.Phil. in Crop Production from the University of the West Indies, and M.Sc. in Agricultural Development (Economics) from the University of London.


Brian A. Day

Brian A. Day, is Project Director of the global Environmental Education and Communication Project for USAID, better known as GreenCOM. GreenCOM has worked in more than 30 countries over the last eight years. Brian has more than 20 years of work in environmental communication, having worked for the Environmental Defense Fund, World Wildlife Fund, the U.S. Conference of Mayors and others—at the local, state, national and international level. He currently edits a new journal entitled Applied Environmental Education and Communication: An International Journal. He has an M.S. from the University of Michigan in environmental communications.


Mohammad A. Latif

Presently, Mr. Latif is serving as Regional Environmental Officer in the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia (E&E) of the U.S. Agency for International development (USAID) in Washington, DC. He is responsible for providing specialty services in environmental compliance of USAID funded activities, provide technical reviews of industry, water and wastewater infrastructure programs. He is a former principal of Dames &Moore, and former Director of AWD Technologies (i.e., Dow Environmental Services) in San Francisco , former Manager Facility Projects of International Technology Corporation in Martinez, CA and former Vice President of Western Technology Corporation in Phoenix, Arizona, former General Manager of Resna Industries in Novato, CA.

He has a Master of Engineering Degree from University of Alberta, Canada. He is a Registered Professional Engineer (P.E.) in Colorado and Registered Environmental Assessor (REA) in California.


James A. Tobey

James Tobey works with the Coastal Resources Center at the University of Rhode Island. He coordinates the Center's research and learning program and works with field projects in Indonesia, Central America, Mexico and Tanzania. He previously worked with the Environment Directorate of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and the Economic Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Maryland, College Park.


John Wilson

Dr. John Wilson is the Asia and Near East (ANE) Bureau Senior Environmental Officer in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). He is responsible for providing technical leadership and assistance in the development of ANE environmental strategies, policies and programs, with special emphasis on environmental planning and management. He joined USAID in 1988 and has been with the Asia and Near East Bureau since 1997. Prior to joining USAID, he served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Diplomacy Fellow in USAID's Latin America & Caribbean Bureau and as a National Research Council (NRC) Fellow at NASA Langley Research Center investigating the role of wetlands as sources of global atmospheric methane (an important greenhouse gas). Dr. Wilson received his B.A. from Harvard College and his Ph.D. in marine ecology from Boston University.


Martin Karpiscak

Since 1979, Dr. Martin Karpiscak has been working with the Arid Lands Consortium in a variety of capacities. Currently, he is an Associate Research Scientist, focused on conducting research programs on water conser-vation, wastewater treatment in constructed wetlands, and graywater treatment and reuse. He is also responsible for coordinating environmental assessments and conduct research on revegetation of disturbed areas and non-traditional crops.

Dr. Karpiscak received his Ph.D. in Botany (Major Plant Ecology, Minor Plant Physiology) at the University of Arizona in September 1980. He previously received a M.S. in Biology from the University of Arizona in August 1973.