International Development Career Session Scheduled
Friday, April 04, 2008
Students interested in a career in international development, especially at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), are encouraged to attend a career information session hosted by Alonzo L. Fulgham, chief operating officer at USAID. The hour-long session will be held at 10 a.m. on Tuesday, April 8 in WDI’s Seminar Room, first floor of Wyly Hall.
Those interested in attending should RSVP to Makiko Omitsu, projects administrator at WDI, at
momitsu@bus.umich.edu by noon Monday, April 7.
Fulgham will answer questions about careers in international development and hand out literature about USAID. He provides leadership and direction on a wide range of operational and policy issues impacting the achievement of the U.S. Secretary of State's transformational diplomacy goals. Fulgham is a member of the Senior Foreign Service.
Most recently, he served as Mission Director in Afghanistan from June 2005 to July 2006. Prior to that, he served as the Director for South Asian Affairs in the Bureau for Asia and the Near East; as acting USAID Deputy Director for Serbia and Montenegro; and the Regional Mission for the Caucasus’s Director for Economic Restructuring and Energy, responsible for Georgia and Azerbaijan.
In June 2000, he was selected to study at the National Defense University (ICAF). From March 1993 to February 1998, he served in Jordan, initially as Private Sector Officer and then as Director responsible for economic policy and poverty reduction.
