Sally Iadarola

Managing Director, Community Development

Sally Iadarola has over 18 years of experience in international development with a focus on stabilization and reconstruction, private sector development and public management. She currently oversees projects that apply multisector community-based approaches in conflict-affected countries including Iraq, East Timor, Afghanistan and southern Philippines. Since 2003, Ms. Iadarola’s projects in Iraq alone have received more than $100 million in funding from the World Bank and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Under Ms. Iadarola’s leadership over the past 8 years, ACDI/VOCA projects in 15 countries in Europe, the Middle East, Latin America and Asia have become the reference points for other implementers working in these countries. Prior to joining ACDI/VOCA, Ms. Iadarola served as deputy country director and private sector officer for Uzbekistan under the USAID Central Asia Regional Mission. She also served as chief of party on the USAID-funded Shelter Sector Reform Project in Armenia and as City of Tver project manager on the USAID-funded Zoning Project in Russia. Ms. Iadarola has provided technical advisory services in land development, housing reform and private real estate market development to national ministries in Russia, Albania, Ukraine and Armenia. She has addressed many private sector audiences including the American National Standards Institute and the College of Public and Community Service, University of Massachusetts/Boston. Publications include "Land Development Strategies for Residential Development: Implications for a National Strategy" (Albania). Ms. Iadarola has served on the Board of the American-Uzbek Chamber of Commerce for more than four years. She holds a master's degree in urban and regional planning from the School of Business and Public Administration at the George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree in political science, also from the George Washington University.