The Fourth Central Asia Climate Change Conference (CACCC-2021) will be held on July 26-27, 2021, in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. The conference will be conducted as a mix of in-person and virtual meetings.
The objective of the conference is to strengthen the regional dialogue, information and knowledge exchange in order to support climate-resilient evidence-based decision-making systems, as well as to explore the possibilities to ensure the synergy in climate projects implementation between international finance organizations and the development agencies in Central Asia.
A series of our publications will be dedicated to the speakers and moderators of the upcoming event. And, today, we would like to introduce you to Peter E. Young, Deputy Regional Mission Director at USAID Central Asia. He will be a speaker at the opening session of CACCC-2021.
Peter E. Young is the Deputy Regional Mission Director at USAID Central Asia. Previously, he was the USAID Assistant General Counsel for Europe & Eurasia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the Middle East. Prior to that, he served as the Director of the Regional Legal Office for USAID in West Africa, managing a team providing legal services to USAID bilateral programs in Cameroon, Benin, Ghana, Cote d’Ivoire and Liberia, and regional programs working in 21 countries across West Africa. Mr. Young served as the Regional Legal Adviser for USAID in Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan from 2009 to 2013, and, from 2008 to 2009, he was the USAID Legal Adviser in Afghanistan. From 2004-2007, he served as an Attorney-Advisor in the USAID Office of the General Counsel (GC) in Washington DC, providing in-house counsel to the Bureaus for Health, Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade, conducting commercial and constitutional litigation, and serving temporarily in Iraq.
Peter has lectured in law at the International Development Law Organization in Rome, Italy, the Caucasus University School of Law and Black Sea University School of Law in Tbilisi, Georgia, the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration in Accra, Ghana, the University of Liberia School of Law in Monrovia, Liberia, and the Ballou STAY School in Washington, DC.
Peter speaks Spanish and Georgian. He continues to serve on the Advisory Council of the PILPG. He is a member of the Maryland Bar and serves on the International Non-Profit Law Committee of the American Bar Association. He earned a J.D. and M.A. in International Development from the American University and a B.A. in History from the University of Tennessee.
Stay tuned for further updates to know about other interesting speakers of the CACCC-2021.
