Peter Duffy is a career Foreign Service Officer with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He was sworn in as USAID Mission Director to Bosnia and Herzegovina on August 31, 2015.  As Mission Director, Mr. Duffy oversees the largest portion of the U.S. Government’s civilian assistance budget to BiH, totaling $28 million in 2015.  He leads USAID’s efforts to promote the country’s increased Euro-Atlantic integration by fostering more effective and accountable institutions that meet citizens’ needs and creating a competitive, market-oriented economy that provides better economic opportunities for all citizens.

 

Most recently, Mr. Duffy served as a Deputy Mission Director at USAID/Afghanistan. Prior to that, he served as Director of the Program Office at USAID/Afghanistan, where he oversaw strategic planning, donor coordination, and monitoring and evaluation for the USAID’s overall portfolio of projects. From 2010-2012, he served as Program Office Director for the USAID Mission to Ukraine, Belarus, and Moldova. He also previously served in Kosovo and Pakistan.

 

Prior to joining the Foreign Service in 2003, Mr. Duffy served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kazakhstan. 

 

Mr. Duffy holds a B.S. in Television, Radio, and Film Management from Syracuse University and an M.B.A from Thunderbird, the American Graduate School of International Management. Mr. Duffy is a native of Reading, Massachusetts.