Eugene Spiro

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About Eugene Spiro

Gene Spiro has over 25 years of international development experience designing, managing, and evaluating projects and programs with focus on civil society capacity building, private sector development, business enabling environment, and corporate governance. Recent activities include serving as Acceleration Director at USAID’s Partnerships Incubator (New Partnerships Initiative), implemented by the Kaizen Company, overseeing capacity strengthening programs for USAID partner organizations; with Chemonics, leading a USAID-supported capacity strengthening program for Syria Civil Defense (White Helmets); with UNDP, designing and delivering a capacity-strengthening program for Haitian ministries and government agencies to mainstream gender-sensitive budgeting; and for UNDP and the Islamic Development Bank, preparing an assessment of Malaysia's support of micro, small- and medium-sized enterprises in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Gene holds a Master of Arts degree in International Economics and a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies from the American University in Washington, D.C. He is fluent in French and Hungarian and currently resides in Budapest, Hungary.