Introduction to DAI
Please join us on July 27 at 9 AM ET for the next ISOA Small Business webinar focusing on DAI. Jennifer Collier Wilson, Director, USG Partnerships and Celestine Procter, the Practice Manager for DAI’s Conflict, Stabilization & Peacebuilding team,
will introduce DAI and the work of the CSP team. They will discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with USAID’s localization priorities and small business engagement and how this impacts strategic partnership-building in this field.
Jennifer Collier Wilson
Jennifer Collier Wilson is Director, Partnerships in DAI’s U.S. Government business unit, which includes serving as DAI’s Small Business Liaison Officer. Ms. Collier Wilson has 20+ years’ experience in partnerships, economic development, strategic communications and project management across public, private and non-profit sectors. She served with USAID for 9 years in Asia covering regional integration programs and as Chief Impact Officer at TradeMark East Africa, a $1 billion, 10-year aid-for-trade organization funded by the U.S. government, the U.K. government and eight other donor country investors, overseeing results, research, communications and strategic partner engagement.
Celestine Procter
Celestine Procter is Principal Global Practice Manager in DAI’s Conflict, Stabilization, and Peacebuilding practice. She has more than 19 years of experience in stabilization and peacebuilding program design, implementation, and management in conflict
and post-conflict settings. She specializes in conflict analysis, management, mitigation, and conflict sensitivity as cross-cutting themes for a variety of sectoral programming, including security reform, civil society engagement, governance,
basic service delivery, and multi-sectoral stabilization programming.
Celestine has a diverse background providing strategic advisory services to small and medium businesses in the United Kingdom and the United States, in technical program design for conflict programming, new business development, and organizational change
management. She has served as Chief of Party for programs in Afghanistan, Libya, and Syria. Previous field experience includes technical and managerial positions for the U.S. Department of State, U.S. Agency for International Development,
U.K. Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office in Afghanistan, Iraq, Libya, South Sudan, and Syria. She has also worked for the United Nations on reintegration. Prior to that, her work in international development started with nongovernmental
groups in the humanitarian sphere working in Sudan on human rights, camp management, and basic service provision.
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