Colin Beckwith serves as the Deputy Director for the International Trachoma Initiative program. In this role, Colin co-directs the strategic planning, development, and implementation of ITI’s operations. He manages ITI’s technical and financial operations, and supervises program staff and associates, both at Atlanta headquarters and overseas. He oversees the management of the annual Pfizer donation of Zithromax® to beneficiary countries, including support to the supply chain logistics of the donation (forecasting, supply chain audit, shipment planning) and programming growth projections.
Colin Beckwith is an experienced manager, having worked in leadership positions with CARE USA in several countries and regional offices in Latin America and Africa over the past 25 years. His areas of expertise include organizational development and management, strategic planning and implementation, program design and management, and performance management. He served as CARE’s Director for Central America, Director for Guatemala, and Deputy Director for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Prior to joining ITI, Colin was Associate Director at Emory University’s Institute for Developing Nations, where he focused on cultivating strategic partnerships between Emory faculty and international development organizations for collaborating on exploring mutually relevant development issues in some of the poorest regions of the world.
Colin has a Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Management from the University of Maine, and a Master of Science degree in Natural Resource Management from Colorado State University. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala where he worked as a Community Agro-Forestry Agent, and a Peace Corps Technical and Cross-Cultural Trainer, also in Guatemala. Colin is fluent in English, Spanish, and French.
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