Daryl Veal

Daryl R.Veal is an award-winning, country director level international development professional with over 20-years of experience creating, managing, monitoring, evaluating, and implementing complex rule of law, anti-trafficking in persons, governance, public integrity, land reform, conflict mitigation, business enabling environment, access to justice, and capacity building programs in the Republic of the Philippines, Afghanistan, Iraq, Uganda, Liberia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and the West Bank. He successfully implemented anti-trafficking in persons (TIP) programs in Bosnia and Herzegovina and the Philippines. He created and managed programs in the Philippines that built the capacity of civil society to recognize the signs of TIP, and to implement public awareness campaigns. Further, he administered economic development programs targeted at communities victimized by trafficking schemes. These programs resulted in the upgrade of the Philippines to Tier 2 from Tier 2 Plus in the U.S. State Department annual report on trafficking in persons. His professional performance fighting TIP in the Philippines was recognized by the U.S. State Department by a group honor award for Daryl and the team he led. Moreover, he administered rule of law programs for the U.S. during his service as a senior governance advisor to the USAID Mission to Liberia from 2015 through 2017, a senior development officer and USAID representative in Iraq from 2009 through 2011, and as a senior rule of law and economic governance advisor to the USAID Mission to the Philippines from 2004 to 2007. In addition, he implemented similar programs while serving as the Chief of Party/Project Director of the USAID Supporting Access to Justice, Fostering Equity and Peace program in Kampala, Uganda in 2013, and the Deputy Chief of Party/Deputy Country Director of USAID’s largest rule of law program, the Afghanistan Rule of Law project located in Kabul, Afghanistan from 2007 through 2008. Mr. Veal is a former Special Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia, and senior staff member of the US Securities and Exchange Commission Division of Enforcement, as well as senior associate with the law firm of Fulbright and Jaworski, LLP. He earned a Juris Doctor degree from St. John’s University School of Law (1986) and a Bachelor of Arts degree in Semiotics from Brown University (1978). During a 9-year career as a senior advisor with USAID, he was included in three group Honor Awards and received an individual Meritorious Honor Award.