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In Memoriam: Senior Economist Jeffrey Metzel (1956 - 2000)
Born in the Congo and with a Ph.D. in development economics from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, Dr. Metzel first consulted with AIRD in 1981, when he worked on river basin development in the Senegal River Valley. In 1988 he joined the firm's home office staff. He specialized in livestock economics, on which he worked for several years as a long-term technical assistant in Tahoua, Niger, under a Tufts University-led project for USAID. He continued his work on livestock economics as an AIRD advisor in Nigeria, Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria, Iraq, and Jordan. Metzel was particularly known for his work on cross-border trade of livestock products in the central corridor of West Africa, conducted for the Club du Sahel and CILSS. Jeff also had a long consulting career in Madagascar, where he worked on irrigated agriculture, watershed management, Madagascar's role in the international vanilla market, and the political economy of local vanilla marketing.
Jeff was a mainstay of USAID's Equity and Growth through Economic Research (EAGER) project in sub-Saharan Africa, contributing enormously through his understanding of the problems associated with cross-border trade in East and West Africa and his writings on the political economy of economic reform. He worked tirelessly with his many African colleagues to help advance understanding of Africa's economic issues. Shortly before his death, Jeff also provided the modeling underpinnings for a strategy and presidential initiative to reduce world hunger for USAID.
Jeff Metzel died in a Kenya Air crash off the coast of Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire on January 30, 2000. He remains sorely missed at AIRD and by his colleagues around the world.
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