Anthony Gambino

Anthony Gambino is an independent consultant and former USAID mission director in the DRC.

Mr. Gambino was sworn in as USAID Mission Director in December of 2001. While at USAID he directed a $60 million humanitarian and economic assistance program in DRC focused on food security; better health care, including child survival; strengthening the role of civil society; increasing natural resource management, and economic growth.

He has over twenty years experience in international development issues. Prior to his appointment as Mission Director, Mr. Gambino served as Great Lakes Coordinator for USAID's Africa Bureau, covering countries in Central Africa, including the DRC. He served on the professional staff of the Select Committee on Hunger of the House of Representatives, where he coordinated the Committee's international activities, and worked on southern African issues for the Overseas Development Council in Washington D.C. He also worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Zaire, and as public policy director for InterAction, a consortium of private voluntary organizations.

Mr. Gambino recently spearheaded the new National Peace Corps Association (NCPA) and Global Giving initiative. NCPA, a non-profit organization of returned Peace Corps volunteers, and Global Giving, a nonprofit organization which uses the Internet to connect individual and institutional donors directly to social and economic development projects and environmental causes around the world, have joined in a new initiative designed to utilize the energy and commitment of the returning volunteers to organize people in their communities around support for a project of his or her choice.

A graduate of Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio, Mr. Gambino also holds a Master's Degree in Public Affairs from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.