Symantha A. Holben PhD

Chief of Party USAID Resilience and Food Security Activity

Doctoral DegreeCatholic University of America

Antananarivo, Madagascar

Summary

• A proven senior manager with 20 years of significant experience designing and implementing complex, donor-funded programming, and action. • Successful Chief of Party and Deputy Chief of Party with more than 10 years of experience living and working in Southeast Asia, and additional experince working in Latin America, and Africa, managing teams of 45 or more staff. • Served as the Senior Advisor and Terrestrial and Marine (Scapes) Team Lead, at USAID/Indonesia’s Environment Office, Managing a portfolio of biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation activities. • As Deputy Chief of Party on the $54 million (M) USAID/Cambodia Helping Address Rural Vulnerabilities and Ecosystem Stability (HARVEST) program, provided leadership and supervision of an alliance of 12 local NGO partners that provided technical assistance and implementation of activities in livelihoods development, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation and climate smart agriculture. • Led significant national policy reform efforts in multiple countries, including TOR development, policy analysis and research, and advocacy to improve the enabling environment for terrestrial and marine conservation. • Designed and conducted ethnographic research on decentralization, traditional knowledge, and common pool resource management in the highlands of Peru and Bolivia. • Native English; fluent Spanish; working level French; basic Khmer; basic Bahasa Indonesia • US citizen

Experience

  • conservation
  • climate change
  • tertiary education
  • research & development
  • usaid
  • indonesia
  • united states
  • peru
  • bolivia
  • cambodia
  • Sectors
  • Funders
  • Countries

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