Douglas Anderson

Regional Representative & Chief of Party, Egypt

ACDI/VOCA-MENA Country Representative and Egypt Chief of Party (COP) Douglas Anderson has 40 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, with a strong focus on 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 14 years of livestock experience, including beef, sheep, swine and dairy, and 19 years of fruit and vegetable experience, including production, crop protection, post-harvest technology and international marketing. His experience in food processing spans 9 years targeting over 70 countries on six continents. As ACDI/VOCA-Egypt COP, he manages ACDI/VOCA’s five-year, USAID-funded Global Development Alliance project, Agribusiness Linkages, with regional field offices in Aswan, Qena and Borg El Arab. 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, international trade, 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 over $2 billion to date. He earned his M.B.A. and B.S. in business administration at the City University of Seattle. He also earned certificates in agribusiness short courses from Oregon State University.