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Development Finance Done Right—Asterisk

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A veteran diplomat explains how to navigate the U.S. development ecosystem, master the interagency process, and bring electricity to 200 million people. Asterisk: You have a long history in development, including as a USAID mission director in Ecuador, chief development officer at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and now executive director at the think tank ODI. But your longest tenure was as the coordinator of Power Africa, the U.S. government’s program for expanding electricity access through public-private partnerships. So let’s start there. What does Power Africa do and how did it come to exist? What’s the story? Andrew Herscowitz: Power Africa was started around 2012, after representatives from the Obama administration and some bipartisan congressional delegations had done separate trips to Africa. At the time, six out of 10 of the fastest-growing economies in the world were based in Africa, and they wanted to understand these growth stories. The question wa

Development Finance Done Right—Asterisk A veteran diplomat explains how to navigate the U.S. development ecosystem, master the interagency process, and bring electricity to 200 million people. Asterisk: You have a long history in development, including as a USAID mission director in Ecuador, chief development officer at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation, and now executive director at the think tank ODI. But your longest tenure was as the coordinator of Power Africa, the U.S. government’s program for expanding electricity access through public-private partnerships. So let’s

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