Public-Private Partnerships – a Perspective on 20 Years of Experience
AnnaMaria Shaker
AnnaMaria Shaker is the Chief of Staff of Deloitte US’s International Development Practice within Government and Public Services. She is a seasoned project manager of USAID and State Department-funded foreign assistance development programs that advance inclusive economic opportunities and good governance. AnnaMaria is skilled in building relationships and partnerships with government, business, and civil society across cultures, languages, borders, and sectors to drive results for shared goals.
Prior to joining Deloitte, she worked with non-governmental organizations supporting local private sector, civil society, and governments across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) on economic governance reform. At Deloitte, she has supported USAID in MENA, Sub-Saharan Africa, and South and Southeast Asia as a project manager on technical issues related to locally-led development, economic growth and governance, and private sector engagement. AnnaMaria is a former Fulbright Fellow to Morocco, holds an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown, and speaks Arabic and French.
Michael Metzler
Executive Director Michael Metzler oversees DDI’s Private Sector Engagement Hub and manages the Agency’s relationship with the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation.
Previously, Mr. Metzler was the Director of USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA) in which he successfully led efforts that mobilized over $6 billion of new financing for development projects in over 80 countries. He was also a leading Agency voice on the development of the BUILD Act, which created the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and managed the successful merger of the DCA office and program into the DFC.
Prior to his DCA work, Mr. Metzler served as the Director of USAID’s Economic Growth Office in Serbia, where he managed a diverse portfolio of projects focused on regulatory reform, local economic development, agriculture, enterprise competitiveness, and economic security.
Mr. Metzler has also served as a special assistant and adviser to several USAID administrators on issues related to financial markets, macroeconomic policy, and regulatory reform. Before joining USAID, he was the director of a national house-building program for Habitat for Humanity International and served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Nepal.
Mr. Metzler is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, where he studied development finance and economics.
Heather Kulp
Heather Kulp is the Manager of Strategy & Analytics for Chevron where she is responsible for developing actionable insights on emerging trends, and helping drive strategy across Corporate Affairs.
Previously, she led International Government Affairs for Chevron’s Washington, DC office. Ms. Kulp was the Executive Director of the Niger Delta Partnership Initiative (NDPI) in Washington, D.C., a foundation established by Chevron that builds partnerships to combat poverty and conflict in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. She has also served as Manager of Public Affairs for Chevron in Richmond and provided strategic support on community issues and social investment to business units across the globe.
Before joining Chevron, Ms. Kulp spent 10 years working on conflict management and community development in places such as Sierra Leone, Liberia, Burundi, East Timor, Ecuador and Peru. Ms. Kulp served as the Country Director of Search for Common Ground’s Angola office, where she designed, developed and managed a multi-faceted peacebuilding and community development program. This program was recognized by USAID and the US Department of State as an example of “best practices” in international development.
A western New York native, Ms. Kulp holds a B.A. in International Relations and English literature from Boston University and an M.A. in International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International Affairs. Ms. Kulp lives in Silver Spring, MD, with her husband, two children and two dogs.
Donald Steinberg serves as Expert Advisor to the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), where he focuses on expanding locally-led development, re-aligning U.S. policies with the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals, and promoting diversity, equity, and inclusion. He also serves as Executive Director of the NGO Mobilizing Men as Partners for Women, Peace, and Security, which works to expand the leadership and participation of women in global security issues and peace processes.
Ms. Betty Wilkinson is the Chief Executive Officer of Financial Sector Deepening Zambia. With over 30 years of professional experience worldwide, Ms. Wilkinson has been an entrepreneur, banker, leading multilateral bank manager, field researcher, policy advisor, developing country government senior official, and volunteer. She engages globally with ministers, central bank governors, industry representatives, and leaders of development agencies, NGOs, think tanks, and communities to facilitate evidence-based innovation and change.
Natalie is a senior international development professional who currently serves as Senior Advisor/Chief of Staff to the Director, Africa at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
At EDF, Jay oversees Human Resources, Finance, Corporate Counsel, Corporate Services, Global Operations, and IT, to form an operations systems for EDF that allows scientists, lawyers, economists, and all the other people working at EDF to be more effective and have maximum impact.
Kathryn Stratos serves as the Deputy Director of the Center for Environment, Energy and Infrastructure, leading the Climate and Cross Sectoral Strategy branch. The EEI center is in the Bureau for Development, Democracy and Innovation. Stratos joined USAID in 1991 to work on its assistance program for Eastern Europe. She has managed agriculture, democracy and governance, and health projects, completed a tour with USAID’s Central Asia mission, and worked on climate change and development issues since 2012. She has a Masters Degree in Public Affairs from the University of Texas.
, she moved to the Washington area as a baby. The VA suburbs remained her home even as she traveled, visiting or living in 62 countries, including Papua New Guinea and Timbuktu. A graduate of Washington-Lee High School (now Washington-Liberty High School) in Arlington, VA, Ms. Leo received her bachelor’s degree from Oberlin College, with study at the University of Aix-en-Provence and the Sorbonne, and her master’s from (Case) Western Reserve University. After a year of sociology doctoral study at the University of Michigan, she joined the U.S. Agency for International Development to work on its new population/family planning foreign aid initiative. There she did a pioneering research overview documenting then unrecognized population issues across Africa. Ms. Leo then worked on USAID population/family planning projects in Turkey and later for the Governmental Affairs Institute in Washington, DC before completing her sociology doctorate at American University. During the civil rights era, Ms. Leo researched a racially changing neighborhood in Cleveland, OH and people’s beliefs to achieve and maintain integration. Her later research focused on the trade-offs women made to balance work and family. She found that married mothers working in traditionally male-dominated professions were happy to work part-time for their families but not their careers, in which they felt they had been relegated to “the mommy track.” At various times, Ms. Leo taught sociology at the Univ. of Michigan, George Mason University, Mount Vernon College (now part of George Washington University), and Georgetown University. She also had an editorial business that specialized in social science and social policy articles, books and dissertations. She was active in numerous professional, civic and cultural activities, and a long-time member of the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax. Ms. Leo is survived by two daughters, Alison Leo Rana and Adrienne Leo, and their families, including four grandchildren. In lieu of flowers, the family suggests that anyone wishing to commemorate Ms. Leo might do so by contributing time and/or funds to an organization of their choice promoting gun control, women’s rights or immigration reform. A memorial service will be held on Sunday, January 24, at 3 p.m. through live streaming by the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Fairfax: 
Research & Discovery Group (“GRDG”) announces the passing of Lieutenant Colonel William H. (“Bill”) Lyerly, Jr., Chief Strategy Advisor to the company. Bill passed away on December 26, 2020 surrounded by family. He dedicated his life to public service with a distinguished career of combined 42 years in the US Military and Senior Executive positions of the US Government.
daughter, Elisabeth Camaur Crampton, his son, Paul Camaur, his daughter- in-law, Diana Camaur, his three grandchildren, David Crampton, Aleksandra Crampton and Alexis Camaur, his former wife, Nancy Camaur and his second wife, Wendy Burns Camaur. Richard was born in Healdsburg, California, December 21, 1943 to his parents Josephine Camaur and Cesare Camaur. During his childhood, he became fluent in several foreign languages including Spanish, Italian and German. After high school, he attended Georgetown University where he obtained his Bachelor of Science from the School of Foreign Service in 1965; his Masters in Latin American Affairs, with distinction in 1971; and his Juris Doctor in 1976. Richard served in the U.S. Army Reserve 1965-1973 as a Captain and was stationed in Panama from 1967-1969. He served in the U.S. Agency for International Development from 1969-1979 and was an Economic Affairs Adviser for the U.S. Panama Canal Treaty Negotiating Team with the United States Department of State from 1977-1979. Richard also was an instructor at the George Mason University Enterprise Center, Business Institute. In 1980, Richard opened his law firm in Fairfax County Virginia where he provided legal services in the areas of civil litigation, domestic relations, estate planning, probate law, business law and international transactions. He also devoted substantial time to pro bono cases and was a long time member of the Lions Club. And, from 2002 until his death, he was a certified genealogist and active member of the National Genealogy Society. No services are being held given the COVID-19 pandemic. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to the 
Friday, June 7, 2019, surrounded by loving family and dachshund. He was born November 30, 1952, in Springfield, the son of Richard and Doris Wherry. While he was born and died in the same-ish zip code, he traveled the world helping others. He was the first Eagle Scout of Orion, Troup 123. During his time in the Marines and the State Department (USAID), he was stationed in Africa, Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East, and Asia. He saved sea turtles, helped farmers, encouraged education, improved access to medical care and clean water, and worked to repair infrastructure in war torn countries.
graduate of Duke University, where he also played Varsity Basketball, he began his career as a journalist with Newhouse Newspapers in New York. He later accepted an appointment to the University of California-Berkeley, where he taught political science while also pursuing a doctorate in Southeast Asian international relations. In 1956 he joined The Asia Foundation in San Francisco and was posted in Sri Lanka through 1960. He subsequently managed the Foundation’s first New Delhi, India office for four years before joining the Foreign Service of the U.S. Agency for International Development. In 1968 he was assigned to the Agency’s first regional mission in East Africa, with responsibility for the programs in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda. In 1973 he received a sabbatical fellowship to the Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, where he taught a course in development economics. In 1976, the World Bank retained Jim to operationalize its emerging interest in lending for nutrition. Over the next 20 years, he worked in over 15 countries, including Sri Lanka, India, Pakistan, Kenya, Colombia, Brazil and Lesotho, with oversight of a $2 billion lending portfolio.