Lisa Yarmoshuk co-manages Nathan Associates’ International Development Economics (IDE) practice, overseeing management, strategy, and business development for a wide-ranging portfolio of projects and initiatives. These include trade facilitation; trade and investment policy and promotion; enterprise and industry development; macroeconomic, fiscal, and financial policy; regional economic integration; and other economic growth topics.

A strategist and trade and regulatory lawyer with 20 years of experience designing, implementing, and managing programs and projects and advising on legal, business, and policy issues, she has lived and worked in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America.

From 2008-2012, Ms. Yarmoshuk was Chief of Party of TCBoost, a Washington, D.C.-based $11 million USAID project that provided expert assistance to USAID missions and bureaus in identifying and responding to the trade capacity building needs of developing countries. Previously, from 2004-2006, she was Chief of Party of the Southern Africa Global Competitiveness Hub, a $24 million USAID project based in Gaborone, Botswana. She provided cross-cultural leadership, spearheaded innovative communications strategies, delivered technical assistance and training, and led international and regional advisers providing technical assistance related to trade policy, trade facilitation, access to finance, private sector advocacy, and knowledge sharing.

Ms. Yarmoshuk began her work in international development under the first U.S. technical assistance program in Vietnam, advising on implementation of the U.S.–Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement and the transformation of the planned economy into a market-driven one. She later worked on a variety of Nathan Associates' projects in Egypt, Zambia, and Madagascar, providing assistance related to WTO agreements and regional trade obligations, trade policy, and trade negotiations. Earlier in her career, Ms. Yarmoshuk was an attorney with a major U.S. law firm where she counselled foreign governments and companies on complex issues of trade policy, international business and regulatory law, and in litigation and dispute settlement.