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Join AMCHAM Myanmar and USAID/Burma staff for a virtual
webinar for AMCHAM members to learn about existing programs and priorities for
the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID). Director for
Economic Growth at USAID/Burma Paul Pleva will present an overview of USAID’s
Economic Growth activities and investments in Myanmar. Other panelists will
include Steve Parker (Nathan Associates), Chief of Party for USAID’s
Transparency and Inclusive Growth Activity (TIGA). The presentation will go
over activities in Myanmar and will provide AMCHAM members with an overview of
priorities regarding economic growth investments in Myanmar. Please join us for
this special presentation offered at AMCHAM for the first time!
Date and Time: Tuesday, May 12, 9:30 am to 11 am
Venue: Teleconference (all registrants will be sent a Zoom link by May 11)
Cost: Free for AMCHAM Members. This event is open to members only.
Booking deadline: Monday, May 11, 4 pm
Participants are welcome to submit questions ahead of time using this form.
About the speakers
Paul Pleva
Paul Pleva is the Director of USAID/Burma's Economic Growth Office. He manages assistance on issues including: insurance sector, intellectual property rights, agriculture, infrastructure, access to finance, trade facilitation, natural resource management, and more. Mr. Pleva worked at USAID/South Africa, 2013-2017, where he held multiple positions. As Trade Adviser, he oversaw a regional program to increase trade and food security--the USAID Trade Hub. Prior to working in South Africa, he was the Mission Economist for USAID/South Sudan and oversaw a Public Financial Management project. He has also worked for the Millennium Challenge Corporation, developing Compacts in Lesotho, Mongolia, Namibia, Moldova, and Jordan. He holds an MA in Law and Diplomacy from the Fletcher School at Tufts University and a BSc from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Mr. Pleva was a U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer in Uganda, 2002-2004.
Steve Parker
Steve Parker, a senior economist at Nathan Associates, is
the Chief of Party for the USAID Transparency and Inclusive Growth Activity, a
4-year project that supports policy reforms and institutional innovations to
generate inclusive growth in Myanmar to reduce inequality and conflict. This
followed leading development and implementation of USAID’s first two economic
reform programs in Myanmar, the Private Sector Development Activity and the
Economic Reform and ASEAN Integration Program, from the end of 2013 to the end
of 2020. For most of the period from 2001 through the end of 2013, he led USAID
projects in Laos and Vietnam that supported transformational reforms to
implement U.S. Bilateral Trade Agreements to normalize economic relations and
to accede to the World Trade Organization. Earlier in his career, he worked as
Senior Research Fellow at the Asian Development Bank (ADB) Institute in Tokyo,
Japan; as the Chief Economist for The Asia Foundation in San Francisco,
California; as the Trade and Macroeconomist for the USAID Mission and as the
Resident Trade Advisor for the Harvard Institute for International Development,
both in Jakarta, Indonesia; and as the lead trade and development economist for
the U.S. Congressional Budget Office and as a trade economist for the U.S.
Department of Labor, both in Washington. Mr. Parker did his graduate studies in
economics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
