Gather with international development leaders
Constant changes and challenges are confronting the international development community. Attend the 11th Annual PSC Development Conference to hear directly from USAID, State Department, and other senior government leaders on the topics that matter most to your company.
PSC’s Council of International Development Companies will have its 12th Annual Development Conference on December 10, 2024. This half-day conference will explore the factors shaping the evolution of international capacity building, related shared government and international development company (IDC) objectives, and the roles and contributions of IDCs supporting U.S. government agencies’ critical missions
Featured Speakers
Alice P. Albright is the Chief Executive Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation where she provides strategic leadership and vision to the agency helping deliver on programmatic priorities. Ms. Albright has more than 30 years of international experience in the private, non-profit and public sectors.
Prior to MCC, Ms. Albright served as the CEO of the Global Partnership for Education (GPE). As a political appointee of the Obama Administration, between 2009 and 2013, she was the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im Bank). Beforehand, she was the Chief Financial and Investment Officer for the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations (GAVI). Prior to working in international development and government, Ms. Albright was a banker focusing on emerging markets, working principally at J.P. Morgan.
Ms. Albright has served on two G7 Gender Equality Advisory Councils, appointed first by the President of France for the 2019 G7 and subsequently by the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom for the 2021 G7. Additionally, she has served on the Boards of Williams College and Mercersburg Academy.
Ms. Albright received her MIA from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and her BA from Williams College. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Scott Nathan serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC). He was appointed by the President, confirmed by the Senate on February 9th, 2022, and formally sworn in by the Vice President.
Mr. Nathan has had extensive experience across the public and private sectors. Most recently, he served as the Senior Advisor to the White House Office of Presidential Personnel after having worked on the Biden-Harris Presidential Transition’s Appointments team, where he oversaw appointments for the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), and the General Services Administration (GSA).
He previously served during the Obama-Biden Administration as the Associate Director for General Government Programs at OMB. In that capacity, he led a team of OMB experts overseeing a range of policy, budget, and management issues impacting numerous cabinet departments and federal agencies. Mr. Nathan first entered public service as the Special Representative for Commercial and Business Affairs at the Department of State, where he led a team of foreign service officers and civil servants focused on protecting U.S. economic interests abroad and advocating on behalf of American exports. In that role, he traveled to more than 30 countries supporting the Administration’s economic diplomacy agenda.
Prior to public service, Mr. Nathan was for nearly two decades a partner, management committee member, and the Chief Risk Officer of The Baupost Group, a private investment partnership based in Boston. There, he gained extensive experience investing across asset classes and global markets while also leading some of the firm’s management and operational initiatives. He chaired Baupost’s portfolio risk committee, co-chaired its best practices and business risk committee, and ran investment team hiring. Mr. Nathan began his investing career focused on emerging markets, particularly public and private equity markets in Central and Eastern Europe.
He graduated from Harvard College and has a J.D. from Harvard Law School and an MBA from Harvard Business School. Additionally, he attended Emmanuel College, Cambridge University in England as the Lionel de Jersey Harvard Scholar.
Mr. Nathan lives with his family in Washington, D.C.
Michele Sumilas is Acting Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development. Deputy Sumilas previously served as the Assistant to the Administrator of the Bureau for Planning, Learning and Resource Management (PLR). PLR strengthens the Agency’s policy voice and leadership in the interagency by better aligning budgetary considerations, planning processes, implementation discipline, and monitoring and evaluation with our development and humanitarian priorities.
Before that, she served as the Assistant to the Administrator of the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning. She previously served as Executive Director of Bread for the World, an anti-hunger Christian advocacy organization. Her government experience includes serving as USAID Chief of Staff and Deputy Chief of Staff during the Obama administration, and on the House Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. Prior to serving in government, Sumilas worked at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Global Health Council.
Sumilas attended Mount Holyoke College and received her Master's Degree in public health from Johns Hopkins University's Bloomberg School of Public Health.
Dwight Deneal is the assistant administrator for the Office of Small Business Programs at NASA Headquarters in Washington. In this role, Deneal provides executive leadership, policy direction, and management for programs that help ensure small businesses are given a fair chance to work with the agency.
Having joined NASA Feb. 14, 2024, Deneal brings over a decade of experience leading small business and federal acquisition programs to the agency. Prior to his arrival at NASA, he served as the director for the Defense Logistics Agency’s Office of Small Business Programs, where he supervised all small business programs and contracting activities.
Prior to that, Deneal also served as the director for the Small Business and Industry Liaison Programs at the U.S. Coast Guard, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In this capacity, he led all small business and socio-economic related guidelines, policies, regulations, and was the authority for planning and carrying out acquisition activities in support of small business programs. Deneal’s experience also includes supporting the Department of Health and Human Services, the Department of Education, and U.S Department of Navy.
In addition to his NASA role, Deneal serves as the vice chairman of the Federal Interagency Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Directors Council. This organization of federal small business program officials meet regularly to exchange and discuss information on small business methods, issues, and strategies.
A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Deneal graduated from Hampton University in Hampton, Virginia, where he earned a bachelor’s in Business Management. He also is a graduate of Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government Executive Education program. Deneal was the recipient of the 2018 U.S. Department of Homeland Security Chief Procurement Officer Excellence in Industry Engagement Award. He is married and has two children.
Paul K. Martin was confirmed by the United States Senate as Inspector General for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) on December 18, 2023. Prior to his current role, Mr. Martin served for 14 years as Inspector General at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).
Mr. Martin has also served as Vice Chair of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee (PRAC) since its formation in April 2020. Congress established the PRAC at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic to facilitate oversight of the federal government $5 trillion in pandemic relief funding.
Before his NASA appointment, Mr. Martin served as the Deputy Inspector General and held other leadership positions at the U.S. Department of Justice Office of the Inspector General (OIG) for more than 12 years.
Mr. Martin also spent 13 years at the U.S. Sentencing Commission in a variety of positions before joining the Department of Justice OIG, including 6 years as the Commission's Deputy Staff Director. Mr. Martin was one of the Sentencing Commission's first employees when the agency was created in 1985 and helped develop the first set of federal sentencing guidelines.
Mr. Martin began his professional career as a reporter with The Greenville News, a daily newspaper in Greenville, S.C. He holds a B.A. in Journalism from The Pennsylvania State University and a Juris Doctor from The Georgetown University Law Center.
Mr. Martin is married to Rebekah Liu, an attorney working in Washington, D.C. A native of Pittsburgh, PA, he and his wife have three daughters.
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Plan Your Trip
PSC's Development Conference is located at the Westin Arlington Gateway Hotel in the Washington, DC Metro Region. Conveniently near two major airports, Metro, bus routes, and plenty of on-site parking.
Things to Do in the Area
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