USAID Swears In New Mission Director for Armenia
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2004-058
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June 29, 2004
Contact: USAID Press Office
WASHINGTON, DC - The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) announced the swearing in of Robin Phillips as the USAID Mission Director for Armenia. Carol Peasley, Counselor for the U.S. Agency for International Development, will preside over the ceremony at the agency's headquarters in the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington.
Mr. Phillips has worked for USAID since 1984, when he accepted a position as an economic officer in the USAID Mission in Bridgetown, Barbados. Since then he has been assigned as an economist, program economist, deputy director, director and now mission director. These assignments have taken him to Nairobi, Kenya and Kampala, Uganda, as well as Armenia.
An accomplished linguist with language skills in Chinese and Japanese, Mr. Phillips holds multiple degrees; a bachelor's degree from Harvard in language studies, a master's of art in Asian Studies and Political Science from Stanford University and a master's of science in Economics from the London School of Economics.
The USAID mission in Armenia focuses on a wide variety of sectors, to include, private sector development, energy sector reform, democracy building, healthcare, social transition, and water management. Overall, the mission is managing over $57 million in funds working to rebuild Armenia after years of communist rule. USAID also provided humanitarian assistance to Armenia following a massive earthquake in 1988. For more information about USAID programs in Armenia, please visit the mission website at http://www.usaid.gov/am/index.html.
The U.S. Agency for International
Development has provided economic and humanitarian assistance
worldwide for more than 40 years.
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