WASHINGTON, Aug. 14 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — If all good things come in
twos, what can top two mission directors in one family? Roberta Mahoney is
the new mission director to Albania and her husband, David McCloud, is the new
mission director to Bosnia and Herzegovina. They received their promotions
today after being sworn in together by Henrietta Fore, the U.S. Agency for
International Development’s (USAID) administrator.
The couple’s lives have followed similar paths before and after they
married in 1976 after meeting at the University of California, Los Angeles.
Both were Peace Corps volunteers in Fiji and both joined USAID as
international development interns in the 1980s — Mahoney in 1984, McCloud in
1988. Now, they head missions in nearby, almost neighboring nations.
In Albania, Mahoney will direct a mission in a nation the administrator
called a valued peacekeeping partner in the war against terrorism that “plays
a vital role in the Balkans promoting peace, security and ethnic
reconciliation.” In Bosnia and Herzegovina, said Fore, McCloud takes control
of a mission where USAID has invested more than $1 billion since 1995,
restoring that nation’s infrastructure and economy and “strengthening the
market chain that resulted in more than 1,500 jobs and investments in
agriculture.”
During her career, Mahoney served as an economics officer in both
USAID/Kenya and in USAID/Malawi, as well as an associate mission director in
USAID’s Egypt mission. In Washington, she served in several positions within
USAID, including those in its Africa and Europe and Eurasia Bureaus. Her most
recent position was in USAID’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean as
director of the Office for Resources for Sustainable Development. Mahoney
earned master’s degrees in regional planning from the University of
California, Los Angeles and natural resource economics and international trade
from the University of Wisconsin.
McCloud was a program officer in Egypt, Malawi and Kenya and held senior
positions in the Africa and Management Bureaus in Washington. He was most
recently director of the Middle East Affairs Office before becoming mission
director. He earned master’s degrees in African studies and public
administration from the University of California, Los Angeles.
For more information about USAID and its programs in Albania and Bosnia
and Herzegovina visit www.usaid.gov.
The American people through the U.S. Agency for International Development
have provided economic and humanitarian assistance worldwide for nearly 50
years.
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