Join Connective Impact and the  Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC)

For a Discussion on Agriculture, Climate and Health, and Opportunities for Partnership

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AGENDA:

11:00-11:10 am Introductions and Review Agenda led by Joanne Sonenshine (Connective Impact)

11:10-11:30 Discussion on Climate and Agriculture, led by Eric Trachtenberg (MCC)

11:30-11:45 Discussion on Health led by Carolyn Wetzel Chen (MCC)

11:45 - 12:00 Q&A facilitated by Joanne Sonenshine

Eric Trachtenberg, Practice Lead and Senior Director of MCC’s Land and Agricultural Economy Practice Group.

Eric leads design and oversight of MCC’s investments to improve food security and to strengthen land productivity. He has more than 25 years’ experience working in international agricultural development and trade.

Before coming to MCC, Trachtenberg established a food and agriculture practice at McLarty Associates, a global strategic advisory firm. 

For most of his career, Trachtenberg served as a Foreign Service Officer at USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) both in Washington and abroad. 

Prior to his time at USDA, Trachtenberg worked in the U.S. House of Representatives, the Environmental Protection Agency, and on the Taiwan stock market.

Carolyn Wetzel Chen, Health Director in the Human and Community Development Practice Group at MCC

Carolyn has been leading health systems strengthening, nutrition, air quality, and digital health programming design and implementation since 2014.

She leads US and cooperating country-based project teams across a matrixed organization and in post-conflict and transitional contexts. As a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) she manages the procurement and oversight of consulting services to due diligence MCC funded projects.

She has more than twenty years’ experience as an international public health professional, with expertise in leveraged grants, results-based financing, innovation data challenges and M&E.