Timothy Fairbank

Tim Fairbank is the co-founder and managing director of Development Transformations (DT). Previously, Mr. Fairbank was the director for democracy and rule of law at MPRI, where he was responsible for the design and management of programs related to security sector reform, rule of law, civil society development, and institutional capacity building.

Mr. Fairbank spent numerous years working in the Eurasia division of the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), where he worked to support democratic elections, political parties, parliaments, civil society development, and civil service training in countries in transition. In addition to his position of senior program manager at the Institute's headquarters, he worked several years in the field directing programs in Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Moldova and Georgia. He served as NDI's first country director in Moldova, director of civic programs in Ukraine, acting director in Kazakhstan, and as an advisor to programs throughout the region. Mr. Fairbank has conducted more than a dozen political and election-related assessments as a member of Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and NDI international delegations. He earned his master's degree, with distinction, from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.

Sloan Mann

Sloan Mann is the co-founder and managing director of Development Transformations (DT). Prior to founding DT, Mr. Mann held a diverse array of jobs in the military, private, and public sectors. From 2007 - 2009 he was the USAID Development Advisor to the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force - Afghanistan (CJSOTF-A) based in Bagram, Afghanistan. In partnership with U.S. Special Forces, he developed methodologies for effective interagency approaches to promoting stabilization in priority communities to the counterinsurgency effort.

Mr. Mann has worked for a number of different offices at USAID including the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (OFDA) and the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI). He was a field program officer with OFDA responsible for all operations in south and west Darfur, Sudan. In Iraq as a member of the Disaster Assistance Response Team (DART) and OTI, he worked one year as an abuse prevention officer focusing on identifying, monitoring, and preventing human rights violations. While in the military, Mr. Mann served as a U.S. Army infantry officer from 1997 to 2002 and was a member of peacekeeping deployments to Bosnia-Herzegovina (SFOR) and Kosovo (KFOR).

Mr. Mann is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and holds a B.S. in international politics from West Point and a master's degree, with distinction, from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He has provided expert commentary on post-conflict stability issues for CNN, Fox News, NPR, and other news programs and published articles on his work in multiple publications.

Jonathan Auger

Joe Auger serves as a senior trainer with Development Transformations. He provides training and technical assistance to the District Stability Framework (DSF), an initiative managed by the Office of Military Affairs at USAID. From 1998-2007, Auger served in the Canadian Forces. While deployed to Afghanistan, he assisted the Kandahar Provincial Reconstruction Team in implementing community based stabilization projects and coordinating development programs with public and private sector partners as well as international organizations. After leaving the Canadian military, Auger directed the local stability initiatives component of a USAID Afghanistan stability project focused on local government and community development. As part of this work, he developed provincial stabilization strategies in concert with U.S. and international forces within the Pashtun Belt.

Justin Bishop

Justin Bishop serves as a consultant with Development Transformations providing risk assessment and logistics support to select DT projects. Mr. Bishop served eight years with the U.S. Army in Europe, including three years of peacekeeping operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) with IFOR and SFOR, where he worked as a liaison officer between U.S. Civil Affairs teams, local government officials, and the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). Mr. Bishop developed and supervised personal security training programs for over 200 OSCE election monitors during the 1996 and 1998 general elections in BiH. After leaving the military, Mr. Bishop worked for a Fortune 500 company providing threat and risk assessment and security training for clients traveling to or working in high-risk environments. Mr. Bishop graduated Magna Cum Laude from Auburn University in 1995 with a BA in Russian and Post-Soviet Studies. Mr. Bishop is an ASIS International Certified Protection Professional (CPP) as well as ISO 28000 Certified in Supply Chain Security Management.

Johanna Brown

Johanna Brown is a senior consultant with Development Transformations where she serves as an expert advisor and trainer for the District Stability Framework (DSF), a new initiative managed by USAID's Office of Military Affairs. Ms. Brown most recently worked in eastern Afghanistan as a project advisor for an U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) funded alternative livelihoods project. She has extensive field experience in the Caucasus and Afghanistan managing development programs. Previously, she has worked in the NGO community, the private sector, and as a consultant for USAID implementing partners. Ms. Brown holds a master's degree in International Affairs from The Bush School of Government & Public Service at Texas A&M University.

Howard Clark

Howard Clark serves as a consultant with Development Transformations providing training for the District Stability Framework, an initiative managed by the Office of Military Affairs at USAID. Prior to this he served as a senior counter-radicalization consultant supporting Special Operations Command's Counter Radicalization Branch. From 2005-2009, Mr. Clark served the Department of Homeland Security as Senior Intelligence Officer for Operations Intelligence, Senior Intelligence Analyst for Counter Radicalization, and presidentially appointed Special Assistant to the Undersecretary for Intelligence and Analysis. From 2001-2005, Mr. Clark was a U.S. Marine Corps Intelligence Officer—commanding intelligence, operations, and reconnaissance missions during two deployments to Iraq and one to the Philippines. He is author of critically acclaimed books "Revolt Against Al-Qa`ida: A Strategy to Empower Muslims and Collapse International Insurgency" (2010) and "How You Can Kill Al-Qaeda" (2009). Clark graduated from Yale University with a BA in International Relations, conducted language training at the American University in Cairo, and is currently a PhD candidate at King's College London War Studies where he is Associate Fellow for the International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation. Also, he has been a counter-radicalization expert for numerous shows on Fox News, CNN, and MSNBC.

Ilan Cooper

Ilan Cooper is a program officer for Development Transformations. Previously, Mr. Cooper worked at the Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs at Georgetown University as a research associate. He has conducted primary research, for the Berkley Center and the Institute of Justice and Reconciliation, on the role of local transitional justice mechanisms in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly focusing on the SADC countries. Mr Cooper recently graduated, with honors, from Georgetown University, with a master's degree in conflict resolution. He holds a master's, with distinction, from the University of Chicago in international relations and gained a bachelor’s degree from King’s College London in war studies.

Marc Garlasco

Marc Garlasco serves as a consultant with Development Transformations providing training for the District Stability Framework, an initiative managed by the Office of Military Affairs at USAID. Prior to this he served as senior military analyst for Human Rights Watch, the largest US-based human rights organization. While there he worked in conflict zones worldwide, including Afghanistan and Iraq, and provided on-the-ground analysis of war crimes. From 1997-2003 , Mr. Garlasco was a civilian intelligence officer at the Defense Intelligence Agency providing national-level intelligence working on the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the Pentagon. His last position was Chief of High Value Targeting where he led the Pentagon's leadership targeting cell. Garlasco graduated Summa Cum Laude from St. John's University with a BA in Government, and from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University with an MA in international relations.

Kristin Haffert

Kristin Haffert, principal of Haffert Global, serves as a senior advisor to Development Transformations on gender issues. With experience in more than 50 countries, Haffert Global advises government, corporations, non-profits and foundations on initiatives to promote gender equality and sustainability. Prior to starting her company, Ms. Haffert successfully lobbied for, launched and directed the first department for women's programs at the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI). From 2002-2009 she served as senior management and provided strategic advice to political leaders and country staff on promoting women's leadership in legislatures, political parties and electoral processes throughout Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Ms. Haffert launched major international efforts on gender such as the Win with Women Global Initiative chaired by former US Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright and iKNOW Politics, a multilingual global technology initiative for female leaders. She has designed and delivered leadership training for women at the national and grassroots level, developed public/private partnerships, and mobilized resources for various causes. Ms. Haffert is a senior advisor to the MacArthur Foundation and serves on the Board of the Public Leadership Education Network (PLEN) and Two Steps Forward. Ms. Haffert holds a Masters Degree in Leadership from the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University and a B.A. from Douglass College at Rutgers University.

Oren Ipp

Oren Ipp is an international development professional with more than ten years’ experience in democratic governance and security sector reform. Oren has expertise in post-conflict governance, with a regional focus on Afghanistan and South Asia. Oren is currently a consultant for a number of organizations, including the Geneva Center for Democratic Control of Armed Forces (DCAF), the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and Development Transformations. Recent consultancies have taken Oren to Guinea Bissau, Cambodia, Bangladesh and Geneva. During 2006-2008, Oren was based in Kabul, Afghanistan, where he directed the national and sub-national legislative programs of the National Democratic Institute (NDI). Prior to moving to Afghanistan, Oren worked with NDI in Washington, DC, supporting the Institute's South Asia programs. Among Oren's publications are the chapter "Parliamentary Oversight of the Security Sector in Afghanistan" in the forthcoming volume "Deconstructing Afghanistan's Security Sector," and a March 2009 article in the San Francisco Chronicle titled, "Crisis in Afghanistan." Oren holds a Master's degree in International Policy Studies from Stanford University.

Marina Legree

Marina Legree serves as an expert trainer for Development Transformations' assistance to the District Stability Framework (DSF), a new initiative managed by USAID's Office of Military Affairs. Ms. Legree has extensive field experience in Afghanistan, previously working within the development community, Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT), and the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF). She has worked in remote parts of Afghanistan managing development programs for the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and GTZ, the development arm of the German government. Most recently, she worked with U.S. Army Maneuver units and the PRT's in Kunar and Nuristan provinces as a forward media team leader for ISAF, developing indigenous psychological operations capability and local media capacity. She also has experience training U.S. Army brigades deploying to Afghanistan and Iraq in non-lethal aspects of counterinsurgency and stabilization operations. Ms. Legree holds a master's degree in International Affairs & Conflict Resolution from the Elliott School of International Affairs at the George Washington University.

Timothy Reuter

Timothy Reuter is a senior consultant with Development Transformations where he serves as an expert trainer for the District Stability Framework (DSF), a new initiative managed by USAID's Office of Military Affairs. Most recently, he served in Afghanistan with USAID on multiple Provincial Reconstruction Teams where he led the strategic development planning between provincial government representatives, development contractors, and local citizens. Mr. Reuter previously worked for the State Department and USAID on stabilization, development, and political-military issues in Iraq, Yemen, Israel, and Saudi Arabia. Mr. Reuter holds a master's degree in international relations and economics from the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies.

Justin Richmond

Justin Richmond serves as a consultant with Development Transformations providing training for the District Stability Framework, an initiative managed by the Office of Military Affairs at USAID. From 2005 through 2010, Mr. Richmond served in the US Army, first as an airborne infantryman and then as a tactical psychological operations team leader, deploying to the southern Philippines in 2009 where he focused on stability, counterinsurgency, and information operations. Mr. Richmond has also worked extensively with local populations in northeastern China and throughout South Korea. He received his B.A. in public policy studies from Duke University in 2005.

John Sanford

John Sanford serves as a trainer with Development Transformations, providing training and technical assistance to the District Stability Framework (DSF) program, an initiative managed by the Office of Military Affairs at USAID. He also serves on military exercises as a stability operations advisor to units preparing to deploy to Afghanistan. John served in the U.S. Army for 31 years, retiring as a Colonel. He initially served as an Engineer and then for 17 years in Civil Affairs. During his 18 month deployment to Afghanistan he directed a Task Force Engineering section (CJ-7) and was a Civil-Military Operations (CMO) advisor to a Brigade Combat Team, having responsibility for six Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRT). He has been on the staff of several development NGOs and managed a large program providing several hundred veterinary volunteers a year to developing countries.

Jobe Solomon

Jobe Solomon serves as a consultant with Development Transformations providing training and technical assistance for the District Stability Framework Program, an initiative managed by the Office of Military Affairs at USAID. Jobe recently served as a political advisor and local governance officer for the Department of State in southwest Afghanistan. As the lead interagency partner in the area, he advised a U.S. Marine Regiment on political-military issues and stabilization operations in six districts. Jobe also served as a stability program manager for USAID's Local Governance and Community Development Program in four provinces in southeast Afghanistan and a program advisor for USAID's Economic Governance and Private Sector Strengthening Program in Kabul. Prior to working in Afghanistan, Jobe was a management consultant to the U.S. Army, U.S. Coast Guard and the Department of Homeland Security. He holds a master's in international conflict analysis from the University of Kent's Brussels School of International Studies and a bachelor's in international relations from the University of California, Davis.

Michael Stanisich

Michael Stanisich, director of stabilization programming for Development Transformations, has extensive experience in the intergovernmental, military, private, and NGO sectors. Before joining DT, he served as the International Organization for Migration's Community Stabilization focal point for the Middle East and Asia as well as the institution’s lead on Indefinite Quantity Contracts (IQCs). Michael has also led several emergency relief, transitional development, national-level capacity building and monitoring and evaluation programs in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Pakistan. Previously, he worked as a refugee advocate for Refugees International, where he focused primarily on the Balkans and covered issues including refugees, IDPs, trafficking and peacekeeping. Michael is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service and served in the US Marine Corps from 1989-1994.