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Anthony Gambino, MPA ‘85, former Mission Director, U.S. Agency for International Development, Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, will be at WWS on Monday, October 10, and Tuesday, October 11 as our first Practitioner-in-Residence this academic year.

Tony will meet individually with WWS graduate students interested in international development to give advice on how to find summer or year-long internships or permanent jobs with USAID. He will also meet with members of four classes: WWS 571a: Development Policy in Africa; WWS 591b: Workshop on Policing Reform; WWS 591c: Workshop on Managing Mineral Resources; and WWS 591d: Workshop on Reintegrating Youth and Ex-Combatants.

He will then have lunch with students to talk about careers in international development and how to manage a large USAID mission. His visit will end with a public lecture at the Woodrow Wilson School entitled, "Hope in Central Africa," at 4:30 p.m. on Tuesday, October 11, 2005, in Bowl 016, Robertson Hall on the Princeton University campus.

Gambino was sworn in as USAID Mission Director in December of 2001. Here, Gambino directed a $60 million humanitarian and economic assistance program in DRC, focused on food security; better health care, including child survival; strengthening the role of civil society; increasing natural resource management, and economic growth.

Gambino has over twenty years experience in international development issues. Prior to his appointment as Mission Director, Gambino served as Great Lakes Coordinator for USAID's Africa Bureau, covering countries in Central Africa, including the DRC. He served on the professional staff of the Select Committee on Hunger of the House of Representatives, where he coordinated the Committee's international activities, and worked on southern African issues for the Overseas Development Council in Washington D.C. Gambino also worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire, and as public policy director for InterAction, a consortium of private voluntary organizations.

Gambino recently spearheaded the new National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) and Global Giving initiative. NPCA, a non-profit organization of returned Peace Corps volunteers, and Global Giving, a nonprofit organization which uses the Internet to connect individual and institutional donors directly to social and economic development projects and environmental causes around the world, have joined in a new initiative designed to utilize the energy and commitment of the returning volunteers to organize people in their communities around support for a project of his or her choice.

A graduate of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, Gambino also holds a Master's Degree in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

This lecture is cosponsored with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and the Office of Graduate Career Services. It is free and open to the public.