Martin Schwarz
Director of Grants
and Contracts
Zamorano University
September 23, 2008
1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
G-001 McCarty Hall
“Opportunities for
Strengthening Linkages with
Zamorano University”
To view seminar recording, click here:
Marty Schwarz Seminar
Full Bio
Martin (Marty) Schwarz is Grants and Contracts Director for Zamorano University in Honduras, with responsibility for outreach programs. A native of Brooklyn, New York and graduate of Queens College, Schwarz has more than 30 years of experience in designing and managing environmental and natural resources, agricultural, and health and nutrition projects in Latin America and Asia. He has worked in Bangladesh, Bolivia, India, Peru and several countries in Central America, while employed by CARE, USAID, and Zamorano University.
Schwarz has coordinated implementation of rural development projects among complex public and private sector organizations and contractors, including USAID and other US governmental agencies, the Central American Commission for Environmental and Development, CATIE, international and local NGOs, and government ministries. Schwarz has designed and implemented gender-focused health, nutrition, and income-generation projects in Honduras, India and Bangladesh. Additionally, Schwarz has prepared highly-praised documentation and briefing materials in advance of visits by senior-level world officials, including U.S. Presidents. Martin (Marty) Schwarz is Grants and Contracts Director for Zamorano
University in Honduras, with responsibility for outreach programs. A native of Brooklyn, New York and graduate of Queens College, Schwarz has more than 30 years of experience in designing and managing environmental and natural resources, agricultural, and health and nutrition projects in Latin America and Asia. He has worked in Bangladesh, Bolivia, India, Peru and several countries in Central America, while employed by CARE, USAID, and Zamorano University.
Schwarz has coordinated implementation of rural development projects among complex public and private sector organizations and contractors, including USAID and other US governmental agencies, the Central American Commission for Environmental and Development, CATIE, international and local NGOs, and government ministries. Schwarz has designed and implemented gender-focused health, nutrition, and income-generation projects in Honduras, India and Bangladesh. Additionally, Schwarz has prepared highly-praised documentation and briefing materials in advance of visits by senior-level world officials, including U.S. Presidents.
About Zamorano University
"Zamorano is a private international university offering natural spaces, infrastructure, human resources and a proven system of extraordinary quality for the integral training of Latin American youth. At the university, students strengthen their values, develop character and leadership skills and actively “learn how to learn”.
Our institutional programs respond to the main challenges facing Latin America : the sustainable management of natural resources, environmental conservation, global competitiveness, and rural transformation to reduce poverty.
Institutional research and outreach at Zamorano are recognized for generating creative integral solutions, focusing on the rural communities, forests and watersheds, small and large agricultural and agroindustrial businesses and the regional and global markets.
One of Zamorano's strengths is the diversity of its student body, made up of men and women from the region's different socioeconomic, ethnic and cultural strata. 81% of the students currently receive financial aid to carry out their studies and return to serve their countries successfully in a variety of professional capacities.
Zamorano is this and much more. We invite you to get to know us and visit us at this website often."
Welcome.
Kenneth L. Hoadley, President
http://www.zamorano.edu/ingles/
If you missed either of the last 2 seminars, you can view
recordings of them, as listed below:
Dyno Keating, Director General of the World Vegetable Center,
"The Importance of Improving Small-Holder Vegetable Production
in the Developing World", July 28, 2008, click here to review a recording of the seminar.
Willie Dar, Director General of the International Crop Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), "From Gloom to Bloom: High-Value Crops in the Semi-Arid Tropics" on July 19, 2007, you can view a recording of the seminar.
