Credit Review Board

The Credit Review Board is a standing internal advisory and approval committee responsible for reviewing all loan guarantee transactions supported by the Agency’s Development Credit Authority (DCA). No guaranteed transactions move forward to financial close and implementation without the board’s approval. The board serves a critical oversight function for USAID’s DCA loan guarantee program; ensuring a holistic, comprehensive and independent review of each loan guarantee transaction. 

The board is chaired by the Agency’s deputy chief financial officer and is composed of 9 primary voting members and 9 alternate members representing each of the Agency’s five primary regional bureaus, the Office of the Chief Financial Officer, the Office of the General Counsel, the Office of Budget and Resource Management, and the Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources in the State Department. Each board member is appointed independently by his/her bureau’s leadership on an annual basis. The Office of the Inspector General also appoints a member to the board but in a non-voting capacity.

Kent Kuyumjian 
         Kent Kuyumjian
      Chairman of the Board


Regional Bureaus

Africa Bureau

Oren Wyche-Shaw
      Oren Wyche-Shaw

Asia Bureau

Kofi Owusu Boakye
      Kofi Owusu Boakye

Europe and Eurasia Bureau

Vacant

Latin America and the Caribbean Bureau

Douglas Pulse        
         Douglas Pulse              

Middle East Bureau

William Baldridge        Denise Lamaute
         William Baldridge                             Denise Lamaute


Functional Offices

Office of Budget and Resource Management

Oluwaseun Samuel Ayanleye
Oluwaseun Samuel Ayanleye

Office of the General Council

Lauren Boccardi         Nichelle Johnson-Billips        Jonathan Ng
         Lauren Boccardi                       Nichelle Johnson-Billips                         Jonathan Ng

Office of the Chief Financial Officer

Kent Kuyumjian         Jaheda Guliwala
         Kent Kuyumjian                             Jaheda Guliwala

Office of U.S. Foreign Assistance Resources in the State Department

Christian Vanden Assem
   Christian Vanden Assem