Darius Mans

Vice President, Department of Compact Implementation

Darius Mans is the Vice President in the Department of Compact Implementation at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). He oversees the strategic and operational approaches of MCC in the entire Implementation Department portfolio, heading the efforts of project coordination and execution in conjunction with his Washington D.C. based management team and Resident Country Missions. In addition, he collaborates with relevant officials of the Department of State, United States Agency for International Development, other U.S. government agencies and other donors in the region, to develop and support operations which reduce poverty through economic growth.

Before joining MCC, Mr. Mans was Director with the World Bank Institute (WBI) in Washington D.C. responsible for its programs in WBI’s 45 focus countries around the world. From 2000 to 2004, he served as the World Bank’s Country Director for Mozambique and Angola, residing in Mozambique. In that capacity, he led a team of over 100 professionals with an annual administrative budget of $7 million which generated $150 million in lending each year to Mozambique, including support for public private partnerships in infrastructure that catalyzed over $1 billion in private investment and chaired two international donor conferences that mobilized over $1 billion of additional financing for Mozambique’s development. He also led the re-engagement of the World Bank in Angola, including a program of analytical and advisory services and $125 million lending to Angola following the end of the 27 year civil war. From 1997 to 2000, Mr. Mans was Manager for Compensation with the World Bank where he led a major reform of compensation and benefits.

Prior to his work at the World Bank, Mr. Mans was an economist with the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, where he worked closely with the United States Treasury and the International Monetary Fund to establish a framework to avoid debt repudiation and restructure private commercial debt in Brazil and Chile. In the late 1970’s and early 1980’s Mr. Mans was an Assistant Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and a consultant to KPMG on infrastructure projects in Latin America and consulted on macroeconomic policy and strategic planning.

Mr. Mans holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and Mathematics from Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan where he was born. A long-time resident of Washington D.C., he is married and the father of three children.