Sibley International specializes in international development consulting services for both emerging and established markets. Sibley uses a proven approach that provides entrepreneurs and policymakers with the practical tools needed for their success and for sustained economic development in their communities and countries.

Donna Sibley founded Sibley International Corp. in 1988. Based in Washington, DC, the firm established itself by providing technical assistance for agribusiness trade promotion to Latin American small- and medium-enterprises. Over the years, Sibley has worked around the world and has developed an array of services and capabilities, particularly in the areas of competitiveness and enterprise development. One important example is designing indigenous franchising systems in emerging markets to spur private sector growth.

To date, Sibley has completed over 25 projects in 19 different countries. More than 15 different industries have been assisted by Sibley's competitiveness services; industry sectors have been as diverse as pharmacies, telecommunications, and freight forwarding.

In the areas of health and the social sector, Sibley is a pioneer in applying the private-sector methods of franchising to NGOs and the public sector. That is, the same methods used to transfer business practices from franchisor to entrepreneurs in the private sector now are being replicated in the social sphere in order to institutionalize upward and downward technology transfer of best practices for health clinics, social service providers, and others.

Sibley provides services in a number of areas of economic and social policy, including: tax and budget policy and implementation; macroeconomic policy; post-conflict reconstruction; reform of national pension systems; labor market interventions to improve employment services and workforce development; comprehensive anti-crisis economic programs; and institutional development of state economic policymaking structures. Sibley has worked worldwide, across a spectrum of country conditions—developing, transition, and developed; post-conflict and stable; low- and medium-income; on five continents.

Sibley International is a US small business. It has a reputation for exceeding clients' expectations, meeting time and budget constraints, and generating high-quality results.

THE SIBLEY LEADERSHIP TEAM

Donna Sibley, President

Founder of Sibley International, with more than 20 years of international business experience, Donna has been responsible for the design, management and implementation of seventeen USAID-funded projects and numerous commercial business transactions. Projects include enterprise accounting reform, SME development, export promotion, franchising, and distribution systems development.

David Snelbecker, CEO

David Snelbecker joined Sibley International in April 2009. He has extensive experience as an economic policy advisor to senior government officials and as a senior project manager, on projects in developing, post-conflict and transition countries. He has worked in the areas of macroeconomic policy; fiscal policy (taxation and budgeting); pension reform policy and implementation; competitiveness; workforce development; post-conflict reconstruction; and trade and investment climate. His past employment experience includes work as Senior Vice President for AECOM International Development (formerly The Services Group), where he managed $15m+ USAID programs in the areas of competitiveness and social sector reform, and as a Macro-Economic Policy Advisor for the Harvard Institute for International Development in Ukraine, during post-socialism and financial crisis periods. He is an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown University Law Center, and holds PhD in Public Policy from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.

Robert Rourke, GBTI II Manager

Sibley Project Manager Robert Rourke has been managing and advising on economic growth development projects for 20 years. His experiences date back to the Private Enterprise Development Support (PEDS) project which was initiated in 1986 and is the predecessor of several generations of the Global Business and Trade and Investment (GBTI) project. In his previous roles on the PEDS and GBTI contracts, Bob managed more than 400 task order assignments involving economic growth. He also had similar roles in previous USAID assistance activities in support of privatization programs, financial sector development and the Global Development Initiative.