Feb 9, 2022
Malick Haidara is a Foreign Service Officer for
the United States Agency for International
Development (USAID). In this capacity, he devoted the past 12 years
working to advance the US Government’s foreign assistance
objectives in Central America, Africa, and Asia. From 2014 to 2018,
he served as the Director of the Economic Growth Office at the
USAID Mission in Rwanda, where he oversaw a diverse portfolio
consisting of agricultural development, private sector development,
access to finance, trade policy, energy, and rural infrastructure
development projects. From 2018 to 2020, he was the Deputy Director
of the Economic Growth and
Agriculture Office at the USAID Mission in Pakistan, where he led
the US Government’s efforts to modernize the Pakistani agricultural
sector. He returned to USAID Headquarter in
Washington in 2020, where he is currently serving as the Managing
Director of the Private Sector Engagement Hub’s Institutional
Support team. In this capacity, he is focusing on creating the
institutional conditions and operating infrastructure necessary for
the Agency to increasingly work hand-in-hand with the private
sector to achieve greater development and humanitarian outcomes.
Prior to joining USAID, Malick built a career in the financial
sector. He worked as Financial
Research Analyst for Standards and Poor’s in Denver, CO and as
Corporate Credit Analyst for E-trade Financials in Arlington, VA.
Malick received his Bachelor of Science in Agricultural- economics
from the National Polytechnic Institute in Cote-d’Ivoire and his
Master of Science in Finance from the University of Colorado in
Denver.
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