Dr. John Van D. Lewis brings over 40 years of experience, combining his discipline, ecological and economic anthropology, with international development management experience. He has acted as Managing Director at Terra Global since 2007. Prior to Terra, John had already completed a 22-year career with USAID by the year 2000, retiring after six years as the Agency Senior Agriculturalist and Director of its central Office of Agriculture and Food Security. With his vantage point in the Senior Foreign Service, John brought several international agribusiness corporations to collaborate with USAID field programs. He served in Senegal, Mali, Cameroon, Egypt, Tunisia, and Haiti and was able to design and implement path-breaking new approaches to community-driven sustainable development in rural settings. Immediately following his retirement from the Agency, John became Executive Director of the Near East Foundation and then Pro-Natura USA, both in New York City. He received his Ph.D. in Ecological and Economic Anthropology from Yale in 1979.