Tim Resch

Tim Resch is Bureau Environmental Advisor for the USAID Bureau for Africa. His office works to strengthen critical links between biodiversity conservation, natural resources management, improved livelihoods and economic growth, and good governance throughout Africa. It provides leadership on African development issues through analysis, strategy development, program design, technical assistance, advocacy, and information dissemination. For the previous five years, Tim had been the Manager of the East Asia and Pacific Environmental Initiative (EAPEI) of USAID Bureau for Asia and the Near East and the Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. He previously worked in USAID Bureau for Africa as Tropical Forestry and Biodiversity Advisor 1990-2000. He worked 1981-1990 with USDA Forest Service, Office of International Forestry as Program Coordinator for Africa and later as Program Coordinator for Food Aid and Voluntary Assistance supporting USAID programs worldwide. He was earlier Forest Management Program Staff Leader, South Dakota Division of Forestry and a Peace Corps Forester in Morocco 1970-74. As a hobby, Tim maintains a web site called the Electronic Job Seekers Guide to International Environmental Careers which reviews and provides links to a wide array of web sites offering environmental opportunities overseas. He was previously listed in the Peace Corps RVS Career Information Consultants (CIC) publication which lists Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), who have agreed to share information regarding their career field or place of employment. Tim presently also serves as the President of Friends of Morocco, an organization of Americans, mostly returned Peace Corps volunteers (RPCVs), with experience in Morocco and Moroccans in America united with an interest in promoting educational, cultural, charitable, social, literary and scientific exchange between Morocco and the United States of America. Tim has an M.S. in Forestry (Silviculture), Colorado State University; and a B.S. in Forestry (Multiple Use), University of Minnesota. Tim speaks French and conversational Moroccan-dialectical Arabic.