USAID/Georgia recently-published its Country Development Cooperation Strategy for 2020-2025. This reflects USAID's increased global focus on working alongside the private sector to solve shared development challenges.
We are therefore hosting a discussion with USAID/Georgia Mission Director Peter Wiebler and USAID/Georgia Private Sector Engagement Coordinator Beverly Hoover to discuss how AmCham/USAID and AmCham members can combine our efforts to achieve our shared goals.
Mission Director of USAID Georgia
Peter A. Wiebler was sworn in as Mission Director of USAID/Georgia in July 2018. Prior to his assignment to Georgia, Mr. Wiebler served as the Acting Director of the Office of Budget and Resource Management (BRM) in USAID/Washington. Mr. Wiebler is a career Senior Foreign Service Officer with extensive senior USG and private foundation experience in democratization. Prior to his current Senior Leadership Group assignment at USAID Washington, he led the Democracy and Governance (DG) portfolios in some of the Agency's largest and most sensitive missions, including Afghanistan, West Bank/Gaza, Serbia, and Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. Prior to joining USAID in 2002, he led Freedom House’s Budapest Regional Office for seven years, spearheading democratization initiatives across Central and Eastern Europe, including regional policy networks and elections programs in Belarus, Croatia, and Serbia. Mr. Wiebler graduated cum laude from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a focus on international politics and the former Soviet Union. He received his Master’s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He speaks German, Russian and basic Serbian. Mr. Wiebler is married with two children.
Private Sector Engagement Coordinator at USAID Georgia
Beverly Hoover is the Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Coordinator at USAID/Georgia. Prior to joining the Mission in October 2020, she served as PSE Policy Team Lead for USAID/Washington's PSE Hub, where she led Agency efforts to expand and deepen collaboration with the private sector to achieve greater development outcomes. She led the development and launch of the Agency’s first-ever PSE Policy in 2018. She has 20 years of designing and directing high-impact development programs and spearheading private sector partnerships in Asia, the Middle East, Eurasia, and Africa. She has extensive knowledge of the region having worked three years respectively in Ukraine, Azerbaijan and Armenia. She holds a Msc in Development Management from the London School of Economics and speaks Russian and Spanish.
