William T. Irelan

Biographical Information
"Mr. Irelan has served as general counsel to ACDI/VOCA since 1991. Mr. Irelan's career includes many years of diverse professional experience in law and international development, having worked previously for the United Nations Development Program, the World Bank, the international division of the Ford Foundation, Robert R. Nathan Associates, Chemonics and other consulting organizations, and, in private practice, as legal counsel to internationally oriented nonprofit organizations in New York and Washington, D.C. He has also worked or undertaken assignments for USAID and foreign governments, including the ministry of finance for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. His professional expertise and activities have comprised general legal counseling, employment law and litigation, trade and export development, finance, and investment promotion. He has lived and/or worked in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, India and the Caribbean. He belongs to the bars of New York, the District of Columbia., Virginia and Ohio and has published articles on such topics as educational policy and human resource development in Jordan, law and economic development in Egypt, and the investment code in Tunisia. He earned his J.D. at the University of Virginia, his B.A. at Monmouth College in Illinois, and attended the University of Geneva in Switzerland. Mr. Irelan was a Ford Foundation Africa-Asia Fellow in Cairo, Egypt. He is proficient in French."