[United States Government Manual]
[May 31, 1996]
[Pages 693-701]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]



UNITED STATES INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION AGENCY

320 Twenty-first Street NW., Washington, DC 20523-0001
Phone, 202-647-1850
Director, U.S. International Development         J. Brian Atwood, Acting
    Cooperation Agency    
Deputy Director                                  (vacancy)

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
320 Twenty-first Street NW., Washington, DC 20523-0001
Phone, 202-647-1850
Administrator                                    J. Brian Atwood
Deputy Administrator                             (vacancy)
Counselor                                        Kelly C. Kammerer

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Chief of Staff                                   Richard L. McCall, Jr.
Executive Secretary                              Aaron S. Williams
Assistant to the Administrator, Bureau for       Colin Bradford
    Program and Policy Coordination
Assistant Administrator for Management           Larry E. Byrne
Assistant Administrator for Africa               John F. Hicks
Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near    Margaret Carpenter
    East
Assistant Administrator for Europe and the New   Thomas A. Dine
    Independent States
Assistant Administrator for Latin America and    Mark Schneider
    the Caribbean
Assistant Administrator for Humanitarian         Douglas M. Stafford
    Response
Assistant Administrator for Global Programs,     Sally Shelton
    Field Support and Research
Assistant Administrator for Legislative and      Jill Buckley
    Public Affairs
Director, Office of Small and Disadvantaged      Ivan R. Ashley
    Business Utilization
Director, Office of Equal Opportunity Programs   Jessalyn L. Pendarvis
General Counsel                                  Wandra G. Mitchell
Inspector General                                Jeffrey Rush, Jr.

[For the Agency for International Development statement of organization, 
see the Federal Register of Aug. 26, 1987, 52 FR 32174]

OVERSEAS PRIVATE INVESTMENT CORPORATION
1100 New York Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20527
Phone, 202-336-8400. Fax, 202-408-9859
President and Chief Executive Officer            Ruth R. Harkin
Executive Vice President                         (vacancy)
Senior Vice President, Policy and Investment     Susan B. Levine
    Development
Vice President and General Counsel               Charles D. Toy
Vice President and Treasurer                     Mildred O. Callear
Vice President, Finance                          Frank L. Langhammer
Vice President, Insurance                        Daniel W. Riordan
Vice President, Investment Funds                 Robert D. Stillman
Vice President, Management Services              Richard K. Childress
Chairman of the Board                            J. Brian Atwood

[For the Overseas Private Investment Corporation statement of 
organization, see the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 22, Chapter 
VII]

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The United States International Development Cooperation Agency (IDCA) 
was established by Reorganization Plan No. 2 of 1979 (5 U.S.C. app., 
effective October 1, 1979) to be a focal point within the U.S. 
Government for economic matters affecting U.S. relations with developing 
countries. The Agency's functions are policy planning, policymaking, and 
policy coordination on international economic issues affecting 
developing countries. The Director of the Agency serves as the principal 
international development adviser to the President and the Secretary of 
State, receiving foreign policy guidance from the Secretary of State. 
The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Overseas Private 
Investment Corporation are component agencies of the U.S. International 
Development Cooperation Agency.

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Agency for International Development

The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) administers U.S. 
foreign economic and humanitarian assistance programs worldwide in the 
developing world, Central and Eastern Europe, and the New Independent 
States of the former Soviet Union. The Agency functions under an 
Administrator, who concurrently serves as the Acting Director of IDCA.

Programs

The Agency meets its post-Cold War era challenges by utilizing its 
strategy for achieving sustainable development in developing countries. 
It supports programs in four areas: population and health, broad-based 
economic growth, environment, and democracy. It also provides 
humanitarian assistance and aid to countries in crisis and transition.
Population and Health  The Agency contributes to a cooperative global 
effort to stabilize world population growth and support women's 
reproductive rights. The types of population and health programs 
supported vary with the particular needs of individual countries and the 
kinds of approaches that local communities initiate and support. Most 
USAID resources are directed to the following areas: support for 
voluntary family planning systems, reproductive health care, needs of 
adolescents and young adults, infant and child health, and education for 
girls and women.
Economic Growth  The Agency promotes broad-based economic growth by 
addressing the factors that enhance the capacity for growth and by 
working to remove the obstacles that stand in the way of individual 
opportunity. In this context, programs concentrate on strengthening 
market economies, expanding economic opportunities for the less 
advantaged in developing countries, and building human skills and 
capacities to facilitate broad-based participation.
Environment  The Agency's environmental programs support two strategic 
goals: reducing long-term threats to the global environment, 
particularly loss of biodiversity and climate change; and promoting 
sustainable economic growth locally, nationally, and regionally by 
addressing environmental, economic, and developmental practices that 
impede development and are unsustainable. Globally, Agency programs 
focus on reducing sources and enhancing sinks of greenhouse gas 
emissions and on promoting innovative approaches to the conservation and 
sustainable use of the planet's biological diversity. The approach to 
national environmental problems differs on a country-by-country basis, 
depending on a particular country's environmental priorities. Country 
strategies may include improving agricultural, industrial, and natural 
resource management practices that play a central role in environmental 
degradation; strengthening public policies and institutions to protect 
the environment; holding dialogs with country governments on 
environmental issues and with international agencies on the 
environmental impact of lending practices and the design and 
implementation of innovative mechanisms to support environmental work; 
and environmental research and education.
Democracy  The Agency's strategic objective in the democracy area is the 
transition to and consolidation of democratic regimes throughout the 
world. Programs focus on such problems as: human rights abuses; 
misperceptions about democracy and free-market capitalism; lack of 
experience with democratic institutions; the absence or weakness of 
intermediary organizations; nonexistent, ineffectual, or undemocratic 
political parties; disenfranchisement of women, indigenous peoples, and 
minorities; failure to implement national charter documents; powerless 
or poorly defined democratic institutions; tainted elections; and the 
inability to resolve conflicts peacefully.
Humanitarian Assistance and Post-Crisis Transitions  The Agency provides

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humanitarian assistance that saves lives, reduces suffering, helps 
victims return to self-sufficiency, and reinforces democracy. Programs 
focus on disaster prevention, preparedness, and mitigation; timely 
delivery of disaster relief and short-term rehabilitation supplies and 
services; preservation of basic institutions of civil governance during 
disaster crisis; support for democratic institutions during periods of 
national transition; and building and reinforcement of local capacity to 
anticipate and handle disasters and their aftermath.

Overseas Organizations

U.S. Agency for International Development country organizations are 
located in countries where a bilateral program is being implemented. The 
in-country organizations are subject to the direction and guidance of 
the chief U.S. diplomatic representative in the country, usually the 
Ambassador. The organizations report to the Agency's Assistant 
Administrators for the four geographic bureaus--the Bureaus for Africa, 
Asia and Near East, Europe and the New Independent States, and Latin 
America and the Caribbean.
    There are three types of country organizations: USAID missions, 
offices of the USAID representative, and USAID sections of the embassy. 
Agency missions are located in countries in which the U.S. economic 
assistance program is major, continuing, and usually involves multiple 
types of aid in several sectors. Each mission is headed by a mission 
director, who has been delegated program planning, implementation, and 
representation authorities. Offices of the USAID representative are 
located in countries in which the economic assistance program is 
moderate, declining, or has limited objectives. The offices are usually 
headed by a USAID representative, who also has delegated authority for 
program implementation and representation. Agency sections of the 
embassy are located in countries where the assistance program is very 
small or is being phased out. Program planning and implementation 
authorities are delegated to the chief U.S. diplomatic representative 
who is assisted by the USAID affairs officer.
    The overseas program activities that involve more than one country 
are administered by regional offices. These offices may also perform 
country organizational responsibilities for assigned countries. 
Generally, the offices are headed by a regional development officer.
    Development Assistance Coordination and Representative Offices 
provide liaison with various international organizations and represent 
U.S. interests in development assistance matters. Such offices may be 
only partially staffed by Agency personnel and may be headed by 
employees of other U.S. Government agencies.

    Country Organizations--U.S. Agency for International Development    
               (Missions, Offices, or Sections of Embassy)              
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                  Country                       Officer in Charge \1\   
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Albania/Tirana............................  Dianne M. Blane (OR)        
Angola/Luanda.............................  Bill Masten (CO)            
Armenia/Yerevan...........................  Fred E. Winch (OR)          
Bangladesh/Dhaka..........................  Richard Brown (MD)          
Belize/Belize City........................  Robert Dakan (OR)           
Benin/Cotonou.............................  Thomas F. Cornell (OR)      
Bolivia/La Paz............................  Lewis Lucke, Acting (MD)    
Botswana/Gaborone.........................  Howard R. Handler (MD)      
Brazil/Brasilia...........................  Edward Kadunc (OR)          
Burkina Faso/Ouagadougou..................  Thomas C. Luche (OR)        
Bulgaria/Sofia............................  John A. Tennant (OR)        
Burundi/Bujumbura.........................  Myron Golden (MD)           
Cambodia/Phnom Penh.......................  Joseph Goodwin (OR)         
Cape Verde/Praia..........................  Barbara Kennedy (OR)        
Chad/N'Djamena............................  Richard Frankel, Acting (OR)
Chile/Santiago............................  Thomas Nicastro (OR)        
Colombia/Bogota...........................  Lars Klassen (OR)           
Costa Rica/San Jose.......................  Richard Whelden, Acting (MD)
Croatia/Zagreb............................  Charles R. Aaneson (OR)     
Czech Republic/Prague.....................  James F. Bednar (OR)        
Dominican Republic/Santo Domingo..........  Marilyn Zak (MD)            
Ecuador/Quito.............................  John Sanbrailo (MD)         
Egypt/Cairo...............................  John Westley (MD)           
El Salvador/San Salvador..................  Carl Leonard, Acting (MD)   
Estonia/Tallinn...........................  Adrian deGraffenreid (OR)   
Ethiopia/Addis Ababa......................  Margaret Bonner (MD)        
FYR Macedonia/Skopje......................  Linda Gregory (OR)          
Gambia/Banjul.............................  Robbin Burkhart, Acting (OR)
Ghana/Accra...............................  Barbara Sandovaln (MD)      
Guatemala/Guatemala City..................  William Rhodes (MD)         
Guinea/Conakry............................  Thomas E. Park (MD)         
Guinea-Bissau/Bissau......................  Michael F. Lukomski (OR)    
Guyana/Georgetown.........................  Pat McDuffy (MD)            
Haiti/Port-au-Prince......................  Larry Crandall (MD)         
Honduras/Tegucigalpa......................  Elena Brineman (MD)         
Hungary/Budapest..........................  Thomas Cornell (OR)         
India/New Delhi...........................  Walter Bollinger (MD)       
Indonesia/Jakarta.........................  Charles F. Weden (MD)       
Israel/Jerusalem (West Bank)..............  Christopher Crowley (MD)    

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Israel/Tel Aviv (Gaza)....................  Christopher Crowley (MD)    
Jamaica/Kingston..........................  Carol Tyson (MD)            
Jordan/Amman..............................  William T. Oliver, Jr. (MD) 
Kazakhstan/Almaty.........................  Craig G. Buck (MD)          
Kenya/Nairobi.............................  George E. Jones (MD)        
Latvia/Riga...............................  Baudouin De Marcken (OR)    
Lesotho/Maseru............................  F. Gary E. Lewis, Acting    
                                             (MD)                       
Liberia/Monrovia..........................  Lowell Lynch (OR)           
Lithuania/Vilnius.........................  John Cloutier (OR)          
Madagascar/Antananarivo...................  Donald R. MacKenzie (MD)    
Malawi/Lilongwe...........................  Cynthia Rozell (MD)         
Mali/Bamako...............................  Joel Schlesinger (MD)       
Mexico/Mexico City........................  Arthur Danart (OR)          
Mongolia/Ulaanbaatar......................  Charles Howell (OR)         
Morocco/Rabat.............................  Michael Farbman (MD)        
Mozambique/Maputo.........................  Roger Carlson (MD)          
Namibia/Windhoeck.........................  Edward Spriggs (OR)         
Nepal/Kathmandu...........................  Frederick Machmer (MD)      
Nicaragua/Managua.........................  George Carner (MD)          
Niger/Niamey..............................  James Anderson (MD)         
Nigeria/Lagos.............................  Stephen Spielman (AAO)      
Oman/Muscat...............................  Mark S. Matthews (OR)       
Pakistan-Afghanistan/Islamabad............  John Blackton (MD)          
Panama/Panama City........................  David Mutchler (MD)         
Paraguay/Asuncion.........................  Richard Nelson (OR)         
Peru/Lima.................................  George Wachtenheim (MD)     
Philippines/Manila........................  Kenneth Schofield (MD)      
Philippines/Manila (ASEAN)................  Dennis Zvinakis (OR)        
Poland/Warsaw.............................  Suzanne Olds (OR)           
Romania/Bucharest.........................  Richard J. Hough (OR)       
Russia/Moscow.............................  James A. Norris (MD)        
Rwanda/Kigali.............................  Myron Golden (MD)           
Senegal/Dakar.............................  Anne Williams (MD)          
Slovakia/Bratislava.......................  Patricia Lerner (OR)        
Slovenia/Ljublana.........................  Michael Zak (OR)            
Somalia/Mogadishu.........................  Richard Ullrich (MD)        
South Africa/Pretoria.....................  Leslie A. Dean (MD)         
Sri Lanka/Colombo.........................  David Cohen (MD)            
Swaziland/Mbabane.........................  Jack Royer, Acting (MD)     
Tanzania/Dar es Salaam....................  Mark Wentling (MD)          
Thailand/Bangkok..........................  Linda Lion (MD)             
Uganda/Kampala............................  Donald Clark (MD)           
Ukraine/Kiev..............................  Gregory F. Huger (MD)       
Yemen/Sanaa...............................  William D. McKinney (OR)    
Zambia/Lusaka.............................  Joseph Stepanek (MD)        
Zimbabwe/Harare...........................  Peter Benedict (MD)         
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\1\ MD: Mission Director; D: Director; OR: Office of the AID            
  Representative; DO: Development Officer; RD: Regional Director; AAO:  
  AID Affairs Officer for Section of Embassy; CO: Coordinator in        
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    International Organizations--Agency for International Development   
                    (Selected Regional Organizations)                   
(A: Advisor; C: Counselor; ED: Executive Director; MD: Mission Director;
            AID R: AID Representative; RD: Regional Director)           
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                Country                         Officer in Charge       
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                            Regional Offices                            
                                                                        
Regional Economic Development Services                                  
 Officesl.                                                              
  Office for East and Southern Africa--  Keith Brown (RD)               
 Nairobi, Kenya.                                                        
  Office for West and Central Africa--   Williard Pearson (RD)          
 Cote d'Ivoire, Abidjan.                                                
Caribbean Regional Development Office/   Paul Bisek, Acting (RD)        
 Bridgetown--Bridgetown, Barbados.                                      
                                                                        
     Development Assistance Coordination and Representation Offices     
                                                                        
U.S. Mission to the United Nations       Hugh Smith (ED)                
 Agencies for Food and Agriculture--                                    
 Rome, Italy.                                                           
Office of the U.S. Representative to     Dennis Brennan (AID R)         
 the Development Assistance Committee                                   
 of the Organization for Economic                                       
 Cooperation and Development--Paris,                                    
 France.                                                                
Office of the AID Development Adviser    Terry Barker (A)               
 to the U.S. Executive Director to the                                  
 Asian Development Bank--Manila,                                        
 Philippines.                                                           
U.S. Mission to the European Office of   (Vacancy) (AID R)              
 the United Nations and Other                                           
 International Organizations--Geneva,                                   
 Switzerland.                                                           
AID Office for Development Cooperation-- Paul White (C)                 
 Tokyo, Japan.                                                          
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Overseas Private Investment Corporation

The Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) is a self-sustaining 
Federal agency whose purpose is to promote economic growth in developing 
countries by encouraging U.S. private investment in those nations. The 
Corporation assists American investors in four principal ways: financing 
of businesses through loans and loan guaranties; supporting private 
investment funds which provide equity for U.S. companies investing in 
projects overseas; insuring investments against a broad range of 
political risks; and engaging in outreach activities. All of these 
programs are designed to reduce the perceived stumbling blocks and risks 
associated with overseas investment.
    Organized as a corporation and structured to be responsive to 
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business, OPIC is mandated to mobilize and facilitate the participation 
of U.S. private capital and skills in the economic and social 
development of developing countries and emerging economies. Currently, 
OPIC programs are available for new business enterprises or expansion in 
some 140 countries worldwide. The Corporation encourages American 
overseas private investment in sound business projects, thereby 
improving U.S. global competitiveness, creating American jobs, and 
increasing U.S. exports. The Corporation does not support projects that 
will result in the loss of domestic jobs or have a negative impact on 
the host country's environment or workers' rights.
    The Corporation is governed by a 15-member Board of Directors, of 
whom 8 are appointed from the private sector and 7 from the Federal 
Government.

Activities

By reducing or eliminating certain perceived political risks for 
investors and providing financing and assistance not otherwise 
available, the Corporation helps to reduce the unusual risks and 
problems that can make investment opportunities in the developing areas 
less attractive than in advanced countries. At the same time, it reduces 
the need for government-to-government lending programs by involving the 
U.S. private sector in establishing capital-generation and strengthening 
private-sector economies in developing countries.
    The Corporation insures U.S. investors against the political risks 
of expropriation, inconvertibility of local currency holdings, and 
damage from war, revolution, insurrection, or civil strife. It also 
offers a special insurance policy to U.S. contractors and exporters 
against arbitrary drawings of letters of credit posted as bid, 
performance, or advance payment guaranties. Other special programs are 
offered for minerals exploration, oil and gas exploration, and 
development and leasing operations.
    The Corporation offers U.S. lenders protection against both 
commercial and political risks by guaranteeing payment of principal and 
interest on loans (up to $200 million) made to eligible private 
enterprises.
    Its Direct Investment loans, offered to small and medium-sized 
businesses, generally cover terms of from 7 to 12 years and usually 
range from $2 million to $10 million with varying interest rates, 
depending on assessment of the commercial risks of the project financed.
    Additionally, OPIC supports a family of privately managed direct 
investment funds in various regions and business sectors. Such funds 
currently operate in most countries in East Asia, sub-Saharan African, 
South America, Russia and other New Independent States, Poland and other 
countries in Central Europe, India, and Israel.
    Programs are available only for a new facility, expansion or 
modernization of an existing plant, or technological or service products 
designed to generate investment which will produce significant new 
benefits for host countries.

Sources of Information

U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency

General Inquiries  Inquiries may be directed to the Office of External 
Affairs, U.S. International Development Cooperation Agency, Washington, 
DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-647-1850.

Agency for International Development

Congressional Affairs  Congressional inquiries may be directed to the 
Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs, Agency for International 
Development, Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-647-8440.
Contracting and Small Business Inquiries  For information regarding 
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opportunities, contact the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business 
Utilization, Agency for International Development, Washington, DC 20523-
0001. Phone, 703-875-1551.
Employment  For information regarding employment opportunities, contact 
the Workforce Planning, Recruitment and Personnel Systems Division, 
Office of Human Resources, Agency for International Development, 
Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-663-2400.
General Inquiries  General inquiries may be directed to the Bureau for 
Legislative and Public Affairs, Agency for International Development, 
Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 202-647-1850.
News Media  Inquiries from the media only should be directed to the 
Press Relations Division, Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs, 
Agency for International Development, Washington, DC 20523-0001. Phone, 
202-647-4274.

Overseas Private Investment Corporation

General Inquiries  Inquiries should be directed to the Information 
Office, Overseas Private Investment Corporation, 1100 New York Avenue 
NW., Washington, DC 20527. Phone, 202-336-8799. Fax, 202-336-8700. E-
mail, opic/[email protected].
Publications  OPIC programs are further detailed in the Annual Report 
and the Program Summary. These publications are available free of 
charge.
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