Chris Scott
Chris Scott is a
Hydrologist with the USAID Water Team, part of the Global Environment
Center in Washington. He has supported Mission activities on water reuse
and groundwater management in Jordan and the design of an energy-water
nexus initiative in India, in addition to a range of coordinated activities
with Regional Bureaus and the Economic Growth and Agricultural Development
Center at USAID in Washington.
Chris is seconded
to the Water Team under a collaborative agreement with the International
Water Management Institute (IWMI), based in Sri Lanka. He worked with
IWMI in Mexico from 1997-2000 on integrated water resources management
in the Lerma-Chapala river basin. In September this year, Chris will
return fulltime to IWMI to head their India regional office in Hyderabad.
He has worked on
issues of water scarcity, irrigation, water reuse, groundwater-surface
water conjunctive management, flood mapping, and institutional arrangements
for water management in Mexico, Honduras, India, Nepal, and the U.S.
He has a Ph.D. in watershed hydrology from Cornell University
Richard Volk
Richard Volk began
his resource management career in 1979 while working to assist South
Pacific islanders to develop and manage their nearshore fishery resources.
During his initial five years of work in that region, Richard served
two years as a Peace Corps Volunteer, and later was employed by the
U.S.-based Foundation for the Peoples of the South Pacific. Small-scale
fisheries development and coastal resources management were the target
of his efforts in both the Kingdom of Tonga and in the Solomon Islands.
Following a brief return to the U.S. for graduate studies in 1985-87,
Richard served the American Samoa Coastal Management Program from 1988-92
as Environmental Planner. From 1992-93 he served as Chief of Party with
the Island Resources Foundation for a two-year project to develop Special
Area Management Plans for critical coastal areas in the U.S. Virgin
Islands. Before beginning his tenure in late 1998 with the U.S. Agency
for International Development, Global Environment Center, Water Team,
Richard served for five years as Executive Director of the Corpus Christi
Bay National Estuary Program in South Texas.
Dr. Barbara Best
Dr. Barbara A. Best
advises the U.S. Agency for International Development on coastal resource
and policy issues, with an emphasis on coral reef ecosystems. She came
to USAID four years ago as a AAAS Science and Diplomacy Fellow on the
Water Team in the Environment Center, and is now serving as a RSSA through
USDA and New Mexico State University. Trained as a marine biologist,
she has worked on marine resource and coastal issues in the Caribbean,
Central America, South East Asia, and the Middle East. Her areas of
expertise includes integrated coastal zone management, with an emphasis
on community-based natural resource management and participatory governance;
marine resource use, particularly the sustainable use and conservation
of coral reefs; marine biodiversity conservation and marine protected
areas; and the international trade of marine resources. Before coming
to USAID, she worked at Columbia University, UC-Berkeley and Colby College.
(BA., The Johns Hopkins University; MS., University of Florida; Ph.D.,
Duke University; Research Fellow, Columbia University; Research Associate,
University of California - Berkeley; Professor, Colby College)
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.
Rick McGowan
Rick McGowan has
extensive international experience in all aspects of water supply sanitation
and health (WSSH) project preparation, implementation and evaluation.
He has designed and/or managed several large-scale (more than $100 million)
World Bank and IDA-financed community-based WSSH projects in Indonesia,
and numerous smaller projects in other countries in Asia, Africa and
the Middle East. In those multilateral and bilateral financed development
projects, he was responsible for project design, management, institutional
development, consultant/counterpart staffing and personnel management,
budgeting, contracting and negotiation, monitoring and evaluation, quality
control, and engineering design and construction supervision. He helped
develop and then supervised project components for sanitation, health,
hygiene, gender, and community participation. As Team Leader and Water/Sanitation
Engineer for the ADB project preparation team for the Nepal Small Towns
Water and Sanitation Project, he wrote a long term (15-year) WSSH sectoral
development plan for small towns in Nepal for the ADB in conjunction
with the Project Preparation. He has been involved in numerous short-medium
term activities for USAID (many under the WASH Project and EHP) and
World Bank for water sanitation programming and policy analysis, development
and advocacy; water technology assessment, socioeconomic and institutional
analysis. He has co-authored numerous reports on water and sanitation
in developing countries. and manuals on water system technologies, system
rehabilitation and sustainability.
He also has extensive
experience in renewable and conventional energy-efficient technology
assessment and applications; project design and management; applied
research; and technical and management training programs, all undertaken
within multi-cultural environments. Mr. McGowan has worked in 28 countries,
and designed, managed, and evaluated numerous long and short-term international
development projects for the World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB),
United Nations Development Program (UNDP) and USAID. He has more than
twenty years of international working experience in Asia, Africa and
the Middle East, and seven years domestic engineering and construction
experience. He speaks very good Bahasa Indonesia, fair Nepali, and native
English.
Betsy Marcotte
A vice president
with Hagler Bailly, Ms. Marcotte, has over 25 years of experience in
water policy, regulatory, and environmental analysis, training, public
outreach and involvement, strategic planning, and project management.
She currently manages Hagler Bailly's Integrated Water and Coastal Resources
Management IQC for USAID, and from 1994 to 1998, she managed USAID's
Environmental Pollution Prevention Project (EP3), which provided technical
and institutional assistance to 17 countries in the areas of environmental
management and industrial pollution prevention. Prior to joining Hagler
Bailly, Ms. Marcotte managed several multi-year, multi-disciplinary
contracts for USEPA in the areas of ground water protection, hazardous
waste remediation, and facility permitting. She also managed a business
unit engaged in the development and implementation of training and public
outreach programs on a diverse set of environmental issues - from Superfund
cleanups and hazardous waste siting to acid rain reduction and lead
in drinking water.
Kevin James
Kevin James is the
program manager for a portfolio that includes the Sustainable Cities
Initiative and the Municipal Water Pumping Efficiency effort. These
projects focus on capacity development at the municipal level and seek
to create critical links between the public, private, and NGO sectors.
The efforts underway engage each of these sectors by touting the multiple
benefits of energy efficiency. By helping these sectors find common
cause through energy efficiency, the Alliance mobilizes community wide
activity to improve the environment, reduce electricity use and costs,
and improve the provision of critical serves within the community.
Before coming to
the Alliance, Kevin James worked for the US Environmental Protection
Agency's Climate Wise Program. At the EPA, he worked to develop ties
between the industrial sector and local and state governments focusing
on the issue of climate change. By developing these links, municipalities
have been able to promote community wide efforts to reduce greenhouse
gas emissions at the same time they are reducing costs through energy
efficiency. Kevin James successfully implemented this working model
on both the domestic and international fronts.
Dr. David McCauley
Dr. David McCauley
is Director for the Asia-Pacific Region of International Resources Group,
a Washington, DC-based consulting firm specializing in services to developing
and transitioning economies in the areas of environment, energy and
emergency management. He holds a PhD in Resource Economics from the
University of Hawaii with undergraduate training in biology and environmental
sciences. He is based in Honolulu and also holds an appointment as an
Adjunct Fellow in the Environmental Studies Program of the East-West
Center in Hawaii.
He has lived and
worked as an environmental and natural resources policy specialist,
primarily in Asia, for more than 20 years. He has previously worked
for The Ford Foundation, Harvard University, the East-West Center and
the US Agency for International Development. A frequent consultant to
international organizations such as the Asian Development Bank, he currently
manages projects in Sri Lanka and Indonesia. He has been an active advisor
to national governments and regional organizations in Central Asia since
1995 on issues relating to environmental and natural resources policies
and institutions-especially for improved water management.
Peter Rogers
Professor
Rogers specializes in methods for managing natural resources and the
environment, with emphasis on the use of analytic optimizing methods
to incorporate both the natural phenomena and the engineering controls;
development of meso-scale models of resource management that relate
directly to macro-economic parameters; robust indices for environmental
quality; and the impacts of global change on water resources. He is
a member of the World Commission on Water for the 21st Century, the
12-member Technical Advisory Committee of the Global Water Partnership,
he has also served on: the Working Group on Water Resources Systems,
The International Association of Hydrological Sciences, 1975; the Water
Resources and Environmental Management Committee, American Geophysical
Union, 1976; the Review Panel on the Environmental Assessment of the
Juba River Development, 1986-1989; the Panel on Climate Change and Water
Resources, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987-1989;
the US team to Assess Causes and Consequences of the Aral Sea Crisis,
1990; the World Conservation Union (IUCN) team to assess potential impacts
of water developments in the Okavango Delta, Botswana, 1992; he also
served as Chairman of; the Panel on Methodology for Assessing Water
Resources and Environmental Impacts for Development Projects, American
Association for the Advancement of Science, 1981-1983; the Panel on
the Environmental Consequences of Large Dams, National Academy of Sciences,
USA, 1986; the team to Assess the US Response to the 1988 Floods in
Bangladesh; the Review panel for USAID of the Bangladesh Flood Action
Plan, 1994. In addition he has served as a consultant on water resources
to various government agencies in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, Morocco,
and Costa Rica. He has also consulted widely with the UN system, the
World Bank, UNIDO, WHO, FAO, UNDESP, ADB, and many domestic US agencies.
Greg Booth
Greg
has over fifteen years experience managing rural development, natural
resources management and eco-enterprise activities. Extensive experience
leading strategic planning teams to identify and accomplish tangible
results (e.g., business plans, results frameworks, results monitoring
plans). He has successfully implemented strategies for community and
private sector partnerships for sustainable development. Currently he
serves as the Tropical Forestry & Biodiversity Advisor for the Africa
Bureau's Office of Sustainable Development (AFR/SD, SO17) and provides
guidance for USAID Mission's for the development of natural resources
management program and strategic planning.
Mike Godfrey
Mike
Godfrey, a staff member of Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI), is
a specialist in community-based natural resource management programs
with 20 years of international development experience in Latin America
and Africa. He has directed programs in civil society and sustainable
community development, forest management, agroforestry, natural resources
conservation, water supply, environmental sanitation, environmental
education, and disaster preparedness and response. He is skilled in
the application of participatory methodologies to the design, implementation,
and monitoring and evaluation of technical assistance projects. His
work includes significant experience in the elements of institutional
strengthening, local governance and capacity building, and citizen participation.
Mr. Godfrey has a Master of Science degree in civil engineering and
a B.S. degree in Forest Management. He speaks fluent Spanish and French.
Bill Painter
Bill
Painter is currently a senior Environmental Protection Specialist in
the Watershed Branch of the EPA Office of Water, in Washington, DC.
His primary duties include training EPA staff and others in the basics
of the Clean Water Act and addressing policies regarding allocation
of allowable loadings under TMDLs, including "trading". Prior
to coming to OW in 1999, Mr. Painter worked 12 years in the EPA Office
of Policy. For seven of those years, he served as the chief of the Water
Policy Branch, a small "think tank" dedicated to the identification
of cutting edge issues and the application of innovative approaches
to addressing water quality issues. Previous to coming to EPA, Mr. Painter
worked for 17 years in the environmental nonprofit community, for a
number of different national and local organizations, on a variety of
water resource issues.
Curtis Borden
Mr.
Borden earned a M.S. degree in Urban and Regional Planning from the
University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1987 and was awarded a Fulbright
Scholarship to conduct research on water supply cost recovery policies
in the northeast region of Thailand. Working primarily for USAID, the
Asian Development Bank and the World Bank, Mr. Borden has more than
seven years experience in designing strategies and technical assistance
activities that deal with debt financing, revenue generation and expenditure
control, and privatization of urban environmental infrastructure projects.
Mr. Borden lived and worked in Thailand for more than 11 years after
first arriving in 1981 as an U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer. During his
tenure with the USAID Regional Housing and Urban Development Office
in Bangkok, Mr. Borden was primarily responsible for developing urban
finance activities in all four regions of Thailand. He has also assisted
with municipal development projects in Lao, P.D.R., Indonesia, and India.
Jeff Mullen
Mr.
Mullen has conducted research pertaining to federal wetlands policy,
the environmental and human health benefits of reducing pesticide use,
returns to public investment in agricultural technologies, bio-economic
modeling, and optimal enforcement of environmental regulations. He is
also involved in testing fundamentals of economic theory with experimental
methods. He has worked in Ghana, Mali, Israel, and the United States.
Mr. Mullen earned
a PhD. and M.S. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from Virginia
Tech, and a B.S. in Economics from Northwestern University. In July
of 2000, he joined the faculty of the University of Georgia where he
teaches courses in natural resource/environmental economics, in addition
to his research responsibilities.
Harald
D. Fredericksen
Harald
Fredericksen has been providing consulting services on institutional
and technical aspects of water resources management since 1995. Areas
of practice have included water resources institutions, financial issues
and strategy for Ecuador, Vietnam and China, privatization of water
and waste services in industrial centers in Saudi Arabia, national and
basin water resources management in Bangladesh, Indonesia, Thailand,
Viet Nam and Peru.
Mr. Fredericksen
served as the World Bank's Head of Water Resources Unit and provided
technical support in water resources management and designed program
strategies for South and East Asia regions from 1984 to 1995. For the
twenty-five plus years prior to his tenure with the World Bank, Mr.
Fredericksen was involved in state and national water resources planning
and comprehensive river basin development projects in Africa, the Mid
East, South America, Southeast Asia and the USA. The first eight of
those years involved planning and design programs for the California
Water Project and state flood control systems.
Frank
Rijsberman
Frank Rijsberman
has 20 years experience as a natural resources planner in projects for
fresh water resources, coastal zones, soil erosion, environmental management
and climate change / sea level rise. He has gained his experience in
projects in developed countries, economies in transition (Hungary, Poland)
as well as developing countries (Afghanistan, Yemen, Egypt, Burkina
Faso, Nigeria, India, the Maldives, Indonesia, Mexico, Turks and Caicos
Islands, Netherlands Antilles, and Jamaica). Prof. Rijsberman has consulted
for UNDP, UN-DTCD, World Bank, USAID, European Union, Inter-American
Development Bank, ESCAP, the Netherlands Government, French Government
and OECD. In 1987 Frank Rijsberman was one of three founders of Resource
Analysis (RA), a private research and consulting firm in the Netherlands.
He has been Managing Director of RA from 1992-2000. Resource Analysis
has a professional staff of about 75 with offices in Delft (the Netherlands)
and Antwerp (Belgium) and provides services in the fields of water resources
management, coastal zone management, and environmental management. In
recent years Frank Rijsberman has worked mostly in integrated water
and coastal resources management, particularly the design of computer
based decision support and communication systems (DSSs), used to facilitate
stakeholder participation. He was appointed part-time professor at IHE
in Delft in 1999. In water resources Frank Rijsberman has been involved
in international developments on water policy since he co-authored one
of the keynote papers at the Dublin Conference in 1992. He was a consultant
to the Netherlands Government and the Global Water Partnership on international
water resources management issues. In 1998 he was appointed Deputy Director
of the World Water Vision Unit, the Secretariat of the World Water Commission,
charged with the development of a World Water Vision by March 2000.
He is a co-author, with Cosgrove, of the World Water Vision report and
editor of the technical companion volume on scenarios.
Frank Rijsberman
was appointed Director General of the International Water Management
Institute, a CGIAR-supported research institute headquartered in Colombo,
Sri Lanka, effective August 2000.
Upmanu Lall
Dr. Upmanu Lall
is a civil and environmental engineering, specializing in hydrology
and Water Resources. His principal areas of expertise are statistical
and numerical modeling of hydrologic and climatic systems and water
resource systems planning and management. He has over 20 years of experience
as a hydrologist. He has been the principal investigator on a number
of research projects funded by the U.S.G.S., the NSF, the U.S.A.F.,
N.O.A.A., U.S.B.R., D.O.E. and State of Utah agencies. These projects
have covered water quantity and quality and energy resource management,
flood analysis, groundwater modeling and subsurface characterization,
climate modeling and the development of statistical and mathematical
modeling methods. He has been involved as a consultant with specialization
in groundwater flow and contaminant transport modeling covering mining
operations, streamflow modeling and water balance, risk and environmental
impact assessment, site hydrologic evaluation and as a reviewer and
as an expert on a number of other hydrologic problems. He has also taught
over 20 distinct University courses and holds a Ph.D. In Civil and Environmental
Engineering from the University of Texas
James Workman
James Workman is
Senior Advisor, Communications Outreach and Media, for the World Commission
on Dams. A native Californian, Workman studied at Oxford and Yale, earning
a degree in history. After five years in Washington as an award winning
business and political journalist he became special assistant, speech
writer, press aide and communications strategist under US Secretary
of the Interior Bruce Babbitt. There he gained six years of extensive
experience writing critically about development issues concerning, in
particular: wildland fire ecology, aquatic ecosystems, native fish and
wildlife restoration, endangered species, property rights, hydropower
relicensing and dam decommissioning.
Dennis H. McCandless
Dennis McCandless
is an independent consulting civil engineer specializing in the planning
and development of international water resources projects, and President
of East Indies Consulting Services, Inc. He has experience in hydrologic,
hydraulic, project layout, cost and benefit, and financial and economic
studies of hydroelectric power projects; water supply developments for
irrigation, domestic, industrial, and mining use; and flood evaluation,
control, and protection projects in the United States and overseas.
His recent activities have focused on encouraging low-impact hydro projects
(especially in the private sector) that will enable developing nations
to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and will supply renewable, indigenous
energy. This has included evaluating how such projects may be promoted
through emerging international instruments such as Joint Implementation,
the Clean Development Mechanism, the Technology Cooperation Agreement
Pilot Project, and the Global Environment Facility's Climate Change
focal area.
Prior to establishing
his consulting practice in 1996, Mr. McCandless was employed for 25
years by two consulting firms: Harza Engineering Company and Michael
Baker, Jr., Inc. He was project manager for Harza's private hydroelectric
power development efforts in Asia from 1993 to 1996. During resident
international assignments, Mr. McCandless served as project manager
for feasibility studies of 10 small hydropower projects in Northern
Luzon, Philippines, for the National Power Corporation; and established
and managed Harza's Philippine branch office. He was also leader of
a technical advisory team working with the Provincial Public Works Department
in South Sulawesi, Indonesia, on planning, design, construction, and
operation of a series of storage dams, diversion weirs, and irrigation
systems. He has undertaken intermediate-term overseas assignments in
India, Pakistan and Indonesia, and short-term assign-ments in St. Lucia,
Hon-duras, and Papua New Guinea.
Barbara Elvy Evans
Barbara Elvy Evans
is a Senior Water and Sanitation Specialist and Global Urban Team Leader
with the World Bank's Water and Sanitation Program. She was initially
based in Delhi and subsequently in Washington DC, responsible for the
urban and sanitation portfolios of this US$15M annual program which
focuses on policy development, investment support and learning. Led
research into pro-poor reform and the design of effective transactions
involving private sector provision of services in developing-country
situations. Led development of the Sanitation Connection in partnership
with WHO, UNEP and others.
Prior to this she
was the Regional Urban Specialist, Water and Sanitation Program -South
Asia (formerly UNDP-World Bank Water and Sanitation Program). In this
capacity, she was oncerned principally with urban sanitation and the
focal point for regional activities in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan
and Sri Lanka. Focus was on policy development for urban sanitation,
including research and documentation on large scale sanitation projects
in South Asia. Also working directly with municipal managers to develop
capacity to deliver sanitation services to poor urban communities, and
in consultation with domestic financing agencies looking at capacity
building of municipal decision makers. Provided technical and institutional
input to IDA-supported Rural Water Supply and Sanitation projects in
Karnataka and Uttar Pradesh, Urban Water Supply and Sanitation in Karachi,
Pakistan, and other donor projects in the region.
Eduardo A. Perez
Mr. Perez has 25
years of experience in international development, engineering, policy
and, management and has achieved international recognition for his expertise
in environmental services for the urban and rural poor including water
supply, sanitation, solid waste, and drainage. Mr. Perez also has significant
experience and expertise in the related fields of municipal management
of WS&S services, low-cost housing and urban upgrading, decentralization
of WS&S services, refugee camp planning and, disaster management.
In addition to the sector specific skills and experience,
Mr. Perez is skilled
in a wide range of cross-cutting areas including policy analysis, evaluations,
finance and credit, institutional and sector assessments, community
participation, training and facilitation, program design, leading interdisciplinary
teams, writing and management. Over the course of his career, Mr. Perez
has worked with or for a variety of National and Municipal Governments,
private sector companies, NGOs and bi-lateral and multi-lateral agencies
including USAID, the World Bank, the Interamerican Development Bank,
PAHO, WHO, UNICEF, HABITAT and, UNDP. Fluent in Spanish, Mr. Perez is
a member of the Inter-American Society for Environmental Engineering
(AIDIS).
Mr. Perez is currently
playing both a project management and technical role on various USAID
contracts including the Environmental Health Project (EHP) IQC, the
Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) IQC, and the Engineering
IQC.
Nels C. Johnson
Nels Johnson is
Deputy Director of the Biological Resources Program at the World Resources
Institute (WRI) in Washington, DC. His research has focused on forest
management, monitoring global trends in forest condition, setting priorities
for biodiversity conservation, and the relationship between land use
and water management. He is currently working on strategies for water
management that rely on the protection of natural wetland habitats and
sustainable farming and forestry practices to meet water management
goals. Johnson has authored or co-edited over a dozen books on forest
management and biodiversity conservation. He serves on the senior management
team at WRI and the Executive Committee for the Biodiversity Support
Program, a USAID-funded project managed by WWF-US, The Nature Conservancy,
and WRI. Before joining WRI in 1989, he worked for the International
Institute for Environment and Development and the U.S. Forest Service
Pacific Northwest Research Station. A Minnesota native, Johnson received
his undergraduate degree in Biology at Reed College and a Master of
Forest Science from Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
Lauretta Burke
Lauretta
Burke is a Senior Associate in the Information Program of the World
Resources Institute. Trained as an environmental policy analyst and
geographic information systems (GIS) specialist, Lauretta focuses on
the development of improved information tools to support environmentally
sustainable development. Prior to joining WRI, Lauretta implemented
a GIS in Guyana to support urban infrastructure planning; several GIS
database development projects; established a GIS for the Environmental
Studies program of the Central European University; and performed analysis
on the impact of potential climate change on fisheries and wetlands
for U.S. EPA's Global Climate Change Program. Lauretta is co-author
of the report: Reefs at Risk: A Map-Based Indicator of Threats to the
World's Coral Reefs, and currently manages an analysis of threats to
coral reefs in Southeast Asia.
Marlou Tomkinson Church
As
Senior Policy Advisor Ms. Church has developed the Watershed Initiative
at TNC promoting a holistic approach to biodiversity protection that
includes water and bridges the gap between aquatic and terrestrial biodiversity
issues. Since the inception of this program, coinciding with her arrival
in September of 1999, 15 countries in Latin America, the Caribbean and
Asia have asked for her technical assistance in developing watershed
programs. To aid in this process Ms. Church developed the Water Valuation
Methodology for Conservation, which is currently being applied in TNC
sites throughout the LAC region. This methodology involves working with
the stakeholders and water users in target watersheds to create a consensus
on the design of watershed management programs. The goal is to create
sustainable social, economic, and political support mechanisms, in conjunction
with conservation approaches, to protect water sources and watersheds
from Ridges to ReefsTM. Ms. Church works closely with partners to conduct
information analysis gaps and to provide the capacity and institution
building tools that are needed. In addition to in-country site assistance,
Ms. Church has been asked to provide technical review and make recommendations
on water policy laws at the local, national and international levels.
She is an active participant in the World Water Vision process of the
World Water Council, is a member of the Executive Committee of the Inter-American
Water Resources Network (under the auspices of the Organization of American
States), a member of the organizing committee for the IV Water Dialogue
of the Americas, a member of the Water Environment Federation's Public
Education Committee, an active member of the U.S. and Chilean Chapters
of the Asociación Interamericano de Ingeneria y Medio Ambiente
and is a frequent presenter and trainer at international water forums
on water value and watershed management.
Prior to The Nature
Conservancy (1994-1999) Ms. Church was the Director of the Environmental
Pollution Prevention Program (EP3) for the Water Environment Federation
(WEF). EP3 was a U.S.AID project, for which WEF, the largest professional
society for water practitioners internationally, had a $5 million co-operative
agreement to provide technical assistance, training, information dissemination,
and sustainability through the development of local water professional
societies. In addition to managing the project, Ms. Church served as
the representative for WEF and EP3 to international agencies, organizations
and media; conducted needs analysis for technical assistance and training;
oversaw the development of technical, public awareness materials; analyzed
the multi-sector acceptance of P2 implementation and identified gaps
for outreach, education and capacity building. Ms. Church took an active
role in developing and providing training on watershed management through
Pollution Prevention (P2), Cleaner Production (CP), Total Quality Environmental
Management, Effluent Management and ISO 14001. Through these workshops,
she directly trained over 1000 government officials, NGO staff, and
industrial representatives in 15 countries throughout Lain America,
North Africa, Asia, and Europe and gave dozens of presentations in the
US. Additionally, she created an intensive Train-the-Trainer program
to encourage the long-term in-country sustainability of the principals
of P2/CP from which known projects in Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Ecuador,
and Indonesia are continuing.
Ms. Church holds
a M.A. in Public Affairs, Specializing in Developing Countries; from
the University of New York at Albany.
Nancy Diamond
Dr.
Nancy K. Diamond is an environmental social scientist with 20 years
of experience in Asia, Africa, Latin America, Eastern Europe and the
United States. Since 1997, she has managed her own consulting business
(Diamond Consulting) and worked with public and private clients. During
the past two years, she has organized a series of workshops, seminars
and papers on the linkages between environmental and democracy-governance
issues for the Biodiversity Support Program. Dr. Diamond's USAID-related
experience also includes serving as a Research and Evaluation Officer
for USAID's GreenCOM project, the Gender and Environment Specialist
for USAID's Office of Women in Development and as the Social Forestry
Advisor under AAAS Science and Diplomacy Fellowship Program. Her domestic
experience includes work with non-profit organizations, universities,
the United States Forest Service and the California Department of Forestry.
Her academic background includes a Ph.D. in Wildland Resource Science
(Community Organization Development) from the University of California,
Berkeley; a M.S. degree. in Agriculture (Agroforestry) from California
Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo; and a B.S. degree in
Forest Science (Plant Science) from Humboldt State University, Arcata,
California. She is currently listed in A Who's Who of American Women
(1998-99). Her academic awards include Fulbright and Social Science
Research Council fellowships for dissertation work in Kenya, a U.S.
Department of Education's Foreign Area Language Studies scholarship
for Kiswahili.
Richard Huber
Richard Huber is
the Principal Environmental Specialist for the unit for Sustainable
Development and Environment of the Organization of American States.
He has degrees from Yale University and Hampshire College in Master
of Forest Science and Environmental Engineering. He spent 10 years with
the World Bank where he task managed several Environmental Management
and Protected Areas projects. He completed publications on three World
Bank Research Committee projects on Least Cost Economic/Ecological Model
for Integrated Coastal Zone Management in the Developing Tropics, Marine
System Valuation, and Co-management of Urban Environmental Quality.
He completed economic study on Economic Instruments for Policy and Environmental
Management in LAC—Lessons from Eleven Countries. He was a member
of the environmental impact assessment team giving environmental clearance
for loans throughout South America. He taught a series of certified
5-day in-country World Bank Environmental Impact Assessment Seminars
whereby 18 have been completed to date.
Eduardo Mestre
Eduardo Mestre is
Senior Consultant in Integrated Water Resources Management, is Technical
Secretary for the Latin American Network of Basin Organizations is member
of the River Basin Water Management Window Team for the World Bank and
member of the Executive Committee of the InterAmerican Water Resources
Network. He is a civil engineer with graduate work in econometrics,
systems engineering and water resources management. His areas of specialization
include legal, institutional and financial frameworks for water management.
He was public servant in Mexico for 22 years and has worked on water
resources projects for twelve countries in Latin America and Africa,
including water laws, institutional reforms and river basin organizations.
He has worked or is presently working as Consultant for WB, IADB, UNO,
OAS and is advisor for several national and provincial / state governments
in Latin America. He has published several articles, essays and book
chapters on water management.
S. Padmanaban
Mr. S. Padmanaban
is the Senior Energy & Environment Advisor at USAID, Delhi. He is
on a leave of absence from the World Bank and until recently was a Senior
Energy Specialist with the Asia Alternative Energy Program, World Bank,
Washington DC. While at the Bank he was responsible for the design and
development of environmentally sound, energy efficient investment programs
in East and South Asian countries.
Mr. Padmanaban has
over 24 years experience in strategic planning and implementation of
national, regional and unit level energy management programs in the
power, industrial and agricultural sectors in developing countries.
He has been involved in advising electric and water utilities on sector
reform including the planning and design of Demand Side Management programs
in Bangladesh, Egypt, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Phillipines, Sri Lanka
and Thailand,
In USAID, Mr. Padmanabhan
has been involved in the planning and design of energy efficiency, industrial
cogeneration, clean energy technologies and renewable power projects
as part of country bilateral programs. More recently, he has been working
with USAID/India in the conceptualization and design of a sustainable
energy and water demand management program.
He is a Mechanical
Engineer from the University of Madras and a Post Graduate in Energy
Management. His family consists of his wife, Uma and two daughters,
Aarthi and Anjana.
Chris Pannkuk
Chris Pannkuk is
currently assisting the USAID/Armenia field Mission in the overall environmental
sector in particular the water management programs at the regional and
national level. Chris is here on a fellowship implementing concerns
of women in development. Chris has a Ph.D. in Soil Physics from Washington
State University and has extensive experience in agricultural research
and soil conservation. Chris was working with the USDA Forest Service
and Agricultural Research Service in Idaho and Washington for the last
15 years before joining the Mission in Armenia. He has also served as
a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone as an Agricultural Extension
Agent.
Jonathan Pundsack
Jonathan Pundsack
comes to the Washington, D.C. area from the Midwest, growing up in northern
Wisconsin and attending college in Minnesota. He received his undergraduate
degree from the University of St. Thomas, in St. Paul, Minnesota, with
a biology major, and also spent a year studying abroad in Denmark, enrolled
in a Marine Environmental Studies Program. He has a master's degree
in Water Resources Science from the University of Minnesota, Duluth.
Jonathan moved to Washington, D.C., after receiving the Dean John A.
Knauss Marine Policy Fellowship, to work at the NOAA Office of Global
Programs. At the conclusion of the fellowship, he stayed on at the Office
of Global Programs, and is currently the Program Manager for the Latin
America and Caribbean Research Applications Program.
John Thomas
Mr. John Thomas
is currently Chief of the Office of Environment and Natural Resources
in USAID/Morocco. He has been with the Agency for International Development
since 1980, and has served in Ghana (3 years), Kenya (4.5 years), Madagascar
(5 years), and Russia (4 years). He joined USAID/Morocco in September
1999. Mr. Thomas has experience in integrated water resources management,
agriculture and natural resources policy reform, and agribusiness investment
promotion. He has a B.S. in Natural Resources Management from Michigan
State University, and an M.S. in Agricultural Economics from the University
of Hawaii.
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