Olympia World Affairs Program: USAID and Developing Democracies

The speaker, Thomas White, directs USAID’s democracy and governance assistance to Ukraine, based in Kyiv. He will explain how democracy development works and why it’s of great importance today, with a focus on Ukraine.

He is a career USAID Foreign Service Officer with twenty years of service, managing programming on behalf of the USAID in Afghanistan, China, Thailand, and Burma/Myanmar prior to his present work in Ukraine. Before USAID, he managed humanitarian assistance programs and post disaster reconstruction activities in Israel and the Palestinian Territories, Sudan and Indonesia.