How USAID and the Contractor Community Should Adapt to a Changing Development Ecosystem
Event Type(s):
Development Dialogue at DACOR
Description:
"Tony" Barclay, widely admired former DAI CEO and Board Member/Chair of several Washington area development organizations, will speak at DACOR on the future of USAID from the contractors’ viewpoint. Barclay is also the author of 50 Years of Development: How Private Companies Adapt and Deliver.
Until June 2018, Barclay was Director of Development Management and Practice in Georgetown University's Global Human Development Program. Previously, for 30 years, he was a senior executive at DAI, an employee-owned international development consulting firm, and served as CEO from 1999 to 2008. During his tenure, DAI grew from a boutique firm to a global company with annual revenues of $375 million and 2,500 employees working in more than 50 countries. He also served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in western Kenya in the late 1960s, and returned there for his Ph.D. research in anthropology on the impact of a large-scale sugar project. He joined DAI’s development consulting staff in 1977. He moved into a senior management role in 1979, became DAI’s President in 1990 and succeeded the founding CEO in 1999.
Tony was a founding board member of the U.S. Global Leadership Coalition, and is a past President of the Washington Chapter of the Society for International Development. He is a past board chair of the National Peace Corps Association; serves on the board of the Peace Corps Commemorative Foundation; and currently chairs the international fundraising board of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya.
Event Date:
3/11/2019
Event Time:
10:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern
Location:
DACOR Bacon House 1801 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
