Ruth Campbell

Managing Director, Enterprise Development & Competitiveness Portfolio

Managing Director for the Enterprise Development and Competitiveness portfolio Ruth Campbell is an enterprise development specialist with 12 years of experience in program design and management, gender issues, training, needs assessments and strategic planning. In her current position, she manages ACDI/VOCA's Enterprise Development and Competitiveness portfolio team and is responsible for managing the Accelerated Microenterprise Advancement Project – Business Development Services Indefinite Quantity Contract (AMAP-BDS IQC). Prior to this, Ms. Campbell developed new business initiatives for the Africa and Middle East Division and ensured program quality and the integration of gender and HIV/AIDS issues into the portfolio. Ms. Campbell formerly served as ACDI/VOCA’s country representative in Mozambique, directing the Cooperative Development Program which provided technical assistance to over 4,000 members of agribusinesses, producer associations and local NGO facilitators and identified regional and international marketing opportunities for a range of agricultural products. Ms. Campbell designed systems and documentation for the development of crop marketing with the 100,000 member-strong National Smallholder Farmers’ Association of Malawi. She also served as a consultant to the GTZ/Open Reintegration Fund, responsible for monitoring and evaluating microenterprise projects. Ms. Campbell has long-term field experience in Southern and West Africa and the Caucasus. She earned her M.S. in rural development at the Imperial College of the University of London and her B.A. in mathematics and theology at the Gonville and Caius College of the University of Cambridge. Other educational work includes ongoing study of HIV/AIDS at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and her past study of “Georgian Language and Political History” at Tbilisi State University. She is proficient in Portuguese, with conversational ability in Georgian and French.