Doug Anderson

Country Representative & Chief of Party, Egypt

ACDI/VOCA-Egypt Country Representative and Chief of Party (COP) Doug Anderson has 35 years of results-oriented experience as an executive and management consultant on 5 continents and 45 countries. His experience includes developing, assisting and managing start-up, micro, small, medium-sized and major enterprises, mostly agribusinesses. Mr. Anderson’s technical expertise includes 23 years of commercial pesticide application and consulting experience and 27 years of irrigation design, installation and scheduling experience, including utilization and distribution of wastewater. He has 12 years of livestock experience, including beef, sheep, swine and dairy, and 15 years of fruit and vegetable experience, including production, crop protection, post-harvest technology and international marketing. His experience in food processing spans 9 years and 72 countries. As ACDI/VOCA-Egypt COP, he manages ACDI/VOCA’s four-year, USAID-funded Agricultural Exports and Rural Incomes (AERI) Dairy and Livestock project with activities in six governorates in Upper Egypt. Mr. Anderson has written over 50 peer-reviewed toolboxes that have been implemented by agribusiness clients worldwide. In Egypt, he has developed training programs and supervised over 260 workshops, training over 2,700 individuals from 271 food processing companies, 27 trade associations, 147 supplier firms, 41 universities and institutions and 42 donor agencies in human resources, information technology, marketing, business development, financial management and marketing intelligence. He has spoken at numerous conferences around the world on global marketing and regulatory issues. Previously, Mr. Anderson was vice chairman and chief operations officer for National Food Company (NFC). Prior to NFC, he spent 6 years in Egypt on a USAID-funded project to assist food processors to increase exports, successfully launching over 200 new products and growing exports to $850 million to date. He earned his M.B.A. and B.S. in business administration at the City University in Bellevue, Wa. He also earned a certificate in agribusiness short courses from Oregon State University.