Mr. Jeffrey Singer has thirteen years experience in managing rural and agricultural credit, micro-finance, enterprise development, and agribusiness development projects.  He currently serves as Director of Economic Growth and Organizational Development at The QED Group, LLC in Washington, D.C. He has supervisory responsibility for the Economic Growth portfolio. Mr. Singer’s portfolio includes four long-term task orders issued under the Accelerated Micro-enterprise Advancement Project (AMAP) IQC, the Development Credit Authority Financial Analysis activity, the Egypt AERI Business Development Services project, and the Azerbaijan SME Support through Financial Services Development Project.  Mr. Singer recently served as the Team Leader of the USAID Farmer-to-Farmer Mid-term Assessment and completed an Agricultural Assessment in the Russian North Caucasus for USAID/Russia. 

 

Mr. Singer recently served as a Director, Europe and Asia Division at ACDI/VOCA in Washington, D.C.  As Director, Mr. Singer provided technical input, supervision and project administration on 15 agribusiness, enterprise development, and financial services projects.  Mr. Singer served as the ACDI/VOCA Country Representative and Chief of Party for the Farmer-to-Farmer (FtF) Program in Moscow, Russia from July 1998 until December 2000. As Country Representative, Mr. Singer was responsible for overseeing all corporate and program operations in Russia including the management of four regional offices.  Mr. Singer managed the largest worldwide FtF program fielding approximately 150 American agricultural and financial specialists to advise Russian agribusinesses, farmers, associations, and financial institutions per year.  In addition to the FtF program, Mr. Singer provided supervisory support to additional ACDI/VOCA Russia programs including: Mobilizing Agricultural Credit (MAC), Sakhalin Micro-credit Program, Entrepreneurial Business Services (EBS-SFE), and Consultancy Services for Russian Entrepreneurs (CSRE).  Mr. Singer served as the US government representative responsible for a $6 million rural credit fund and co-chair of the Supervisory Council of the Russian Rural Credit Cooperation Development Fund (RCCDF).  Throughout his ten year career at ACDI/VOCA, he served on the board of directors of three non-bank financial institutions and had supervisory authority over 12 rural and micro-finance institutions.  He currently serves on the board of directors of Frontiers, LLC, a wholesale micro-finance lending institution, based in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.  

 

Mr. Singer holds an M.A. in Russian and Eastern European Studies from The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Michigan.