Phase 2: Assessment - (PDF, 101 mb) - USAID

Roberta Hilbruner has been a Communication for Development Specialist with the
USAID/EGAT/NRM since 2000. She manages GreenCOM, a global project that has
worked in over 40 countries for the past 11 years to scale-up development impact
through social change processes. She also manages AgCOMM, an agricultural
communication project, and chairs the USAID Sustainable Tourism Working Group.
Before joining USAID, Roberta worked for the USDA/Forest Service for over 25 years as
a recreation planner, natural and cultural history interpreter, and public affairs officer.
She was Project Manager for design and construction of an award-winning visitor center
in the Columbia River Gorge and while serving in the Forest Service national office, she
managed the Smokey Bear fire prevention program. She brings this recreation
experience to her leadership of the USAID global tourism program.
Roberta graduated from Oregon State University with a degree in Technical Journalism
and holds a Master of Science degree from Colorado State University in Recreation
Resource Management.
Neel Inamdar is an Ecotourism Business Advisor at Conservation International. He has
over 15 years experience in owning and operating tourism facilities, and has been
fortunate to work both in the non-profit and for-profit world. He acts as a liaison and
advisor between private corporations and non-governmental organizations. Before
coming to Washington, Neel was the Ecotourism Business Advisor at the African
Conservation Center in Nairobi, Kenya, where he was responsible for developing and
streamlining CI’s engagement with the tourism industry to utilize the value chain in
support of conservation in CI’s hot spot countries. Earlier experience includes serving as
Executive Director at the Turtle Bay Beach Club in Watamu, Kenya, and as Managing
Director at Eco-Resorts in Nairobi, where he created Kenya’s first “green” fossil fuel
independent safari camp using solar power and implemented extensive conservation
programs linking visitors to local indigenous people. Neel holds a Bachelor’s degree in
Hotel Administration from Cornell University.
Bill Meade is a Vice President with PA Government Services in Arlington, Virginia. Bill
heads PA's environment and tourism units in the Infrastructure and Development
Services practice. He has 20 years of international development experience and has led
assignments supporting government agencies, industry associations, and private
companies in the design and implementation of environmental impact assessment,
environmental management, sustainable tourism, ecotourism and tourism planning. He
has directed assignments in the Caribbean, Central America, Near East, and Asia for
USAID, InterAmerican Development Bank, World Bank and Asian Development Bank.
He has also assisted private hotel companies and chains to develop corporate and
property-level environmental management programs, including achievement of Green
Globe 21 certification. Bill is currently Chief of Party for the USAID-funded Rural
Enterprises, Agriculture and Community Tourism (REACT) project in Jamaica, designed
to reduce poverty and spur economic growth through the development of new (and
improvement of existing) environmentally sound rural enterprises in Jamaica’s two
largest industries – agriculture and tourism.
Bill holds a BA in energy and environmental studies from Brown University, and has
attended graduate and professional training courses in environmental law,
environmental auditing, pollution prevention, and rural environmental management. Bill
sits on the Governing Council of the Caribbean Alliance for Sustainable Tourism, chairs
the board of the Certified Hotel Environmental Manager, and is a guest lecturer at
George Washington University and Cornell University.