Timothy Lavelle is a career civil service officer with 26 years as a direct hire with USAID. Former USAID assignments include USAID Humanitarian Attaché and U.S. Alternate Permanent Representative, United States Mission to the United Nations Agencies, Rome, Italy from April 2000 to August 2004, Special Assistant to the USAID Director, Food for Peace (FFP), and FFP Emergency Division Chief and Officer. Prior to USAID, Timothy served overseas for 25 years with CARE, Acción International and Peace Corps in 11 countries throughout Latin American and the Middle East. These assignments involved support to micro-credit institutions, strengthening of production cooperatives, both rural and urban infrastructure construction, production of therapeutic food, emergency feeding, livestock development, health system management, social enterprise support, reforestation, mother-child health interventions, beekeeping, school feeding, and irrigation management.