Kateri Clement is new Country Director for Mali
Five Country Directors Take New Posts
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 13, 2004 – Peace Corps Director Gaddi H. Vasquez is pleased to announce the transfer of five country directors to new posts. Each of the country directors will officially begin his or her new assignment this month.
Peace Corps country directors are responsible for management and direction of all aspects of the Peace Corps program in their country of assignment. The country directors support volunteers in the field. They lend their skills and energy to meet development needs and promote a better understanding between the host country people and Americans.
The new country director assignments are as follows:
Africa Region
Mali - Kateri Clement
Country director for Mauritania since July 2000, Kateri Clement has been reassigned as director of the Mali program. Clement served as a volunteer in Niger, first as an English language school teacher in Bouza, next as a trainer of Nigerian English teachers, and later as co-manager of the English for the Sahel Textbook Project in the capital, Niamey. Before coming to the Peace Corps, Clement directed Care International's program association with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees' (UNHCR), which funded the emergency food distribution program for 300,000 refugees from Sierra Leone and Liberia. Clement’s additional development experience in Africa includes supervising the Care Mobile Health and Vaccination Program in northern Niger and managing women's credit programs for Catholic Relief Services in Burkina Faso.
Clement is from Harrington Park, N.J. She holds a master’s degree in law and diplomacy from Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and has a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and history of mathematics from St. John's College in Annapolis, Md.
