IDEA People

Managing Director

Ron Ivey

Ron Ivey has more than 30 years’ experience in international consulting with practice and project director responsibility in several major U.S. consulting companies.  Prior to forming IDEA, Mr. Ivey served as regional senior vice president for Chemonics International, a major U.S. international development consulting company. Responsibilities included managing a $100 million division’s operations, recruiting, financial management, new business and performance. Subsequently he served as CARANA Corporation’s executive vice president and Making Cents International’s executive vice president.  Mr. Ivey has extensive field experience with more than 140 long- and short-term technical assignments in developing countries, acting as resident chief of party on several occasions. He has recent work experience in Nepal, Kenya, Paraguay, Panama, Nicaragua and El Salvador.  Mr. Ivey is an IDEA session leader.  He holds an B.S. in management from the University of Denver and an M.A. in economics from the University of Virginia and is highly fluent in Spanish.

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Managing Director

Wyman Howard

Recently, worked as Senior Consultant with Sunergos LLC providing performance consulting and leadership development to global leaders and organizations to fulfill on their most essential mandates. Concurrently serves as president and COO of Future Performance Transformation Inc. Alexandria, Virginia, providing services including team building, organizational management  and “leader development and coaching.”  Wyman leads IDEA Development Leaders in Action Working Sessions.  Previously worked with JMW Consultants, Inc. if Stamford, Connecticut, as senior consultant responsible for a highly profitable consulting practice that provided organizational development, leadership training and coaching.  Recent overseas experience in Papua New Guinea and Trinidad.

Managing Director

Rose Mary Garcia

Dr. Garcia is an economist, manager, and leader with over 15 years of experience in international development. Dr. Garcia promotes the use of rigorous experimental and quasi-experimental impact evaluations, and founded the Society for International Development’s Washington (SID-W) Chapter’s Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Workgroup to promote dialogue on quantitative evaluation techniques. As an active member of the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network (MFAN), she supports the principles of aid effectiveness through country ownership, evidence-based policy making, and global donor coordination. Dr. Garcia has provided economic advisory services for United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Organization of American States, and Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). Her country experience includes Afghanistan, Armenia, Bolivia, Egypt, El Salvador, Guyana, Nicaragua, Peru, the Philippines, and Venezuela. She holds a Ph.D. in economics from Georgetown University and is bilingual in English and Spanish.

Board Members

Andrew Kaiser

Mr. Kaiser is the Founding Partner and Managing Director of The Kaizen Company (www.thekaizencompany.com), a consulting firm that seeks to transform the nature and impact of development by empowering local reformers with unlimited access to reform tools, resources, and expertise. Mr. Kaiser is a highly skilled organizational coach, adept at working with public and private sector officials at all levels to implement change. He has extensive experience working on assignments for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank (ADB). He has a bachelor’s degree in government and international relations and an MBA focused on international business, both from the University of South Carolina. He speaks English, German, Portuguese, and Spanish.

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Bob Rabatsky

Mr. Rabatsky is a Senior Vice President of Fintrac, an agribusiness consultancy that works with USAID, MCC and the private sector. He is an agribusiness specialist with more than 24 years of experience managing and implementing complex USAID and multilateral development bank  projects in Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America. Bob is also responsible for corporate relations in Washington DC, managing USAID agribusiness indefinite quantity contracts (IQC), and developing linkages between the US private sector and Fintrac field programs. He has designed and managed multiyear Fintrac programs in Nepal, Tanzania, Ethiopia, El Salvador, Uganda, Ghana, Haiti, and the Republic of Georgia.

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Bob Devlin

Mr. Devlin, president of Transformation Strategies, works with senior executives and their teams in the US and around the world. His clients indicate that he has an extraordinary ability to build relationships with individuals and groups, leading them in breakthrough conversations that create new ways of interacting and doing business. Bob served for many years as Director of the Georgetown University Organization Development program where he trained hundreds of leaders and consultants in the complex dynamics of systems change.  He is particularly skilled in building long-term leadership learning communities that help leaders explore how to approach complex and ever-changing situations and build confidence in situations where they are called to ‘lead when they don’t know.’ Recently, he has worked with teams across the US, in Kosovo, London, Nigeria, Hong Kong, Singapore, Austria and Helsinki.

Jayne Wood

To be added.

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