Michael Boyd

Background

About Michael Boyd

Michael Boyd is currently Senior Energy Advisor in the Economic Growth Office at USAID Moldova. He was previously Senior Energy Technical Advisor at the USAID Regional Development Mission for Asia from October 2021 to September 2023. Before that, Michael was an Energy Sector Director for Tetra Tech ESI and served as Chief of Party on the USAID/Central Asia Republics Power Central Asia Project, based in Almaty from October 2020 and as COP of the Armenia Market Liberalization and Electricity Trade Project in Yerevan from July 2018. Until mid-2018, Michael was Senior Energy Advisor for USAID Nepal and had worked for USAID since in Tanzania, Afghanistan, Liberia, Kosovo, Central Asia, Montenegro, and Armenia, serving variously as energy, water and environmental policy, and economic policy and business development advisor. From 1984-94 he was Professor of Economics at the University of Vermont, and also worked at the Universities of Botswana and Zimbabwe. From 1994-98 he worked as a consultant throughout Central Asia for HIID on environmental and economic and from 1998-99 for ISNAR on agriculture research policy in Central Asia and the Caucasus. Michael holds a PhD and MA in Economics from Stanford and an BA from Harvard.