W. Stacy Rhodes

Managing Director

Stacy Rhodes, Managing Director for Compact Development, joined the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) on August 1, 2006. He is responsible for supervision of the work of MCC’s Country Directors (Washington-based) and Transaction Teams during the compact development process, until entry-into-force for implementation.  Mr. Rhodes served previously as MCC’s Managing Director for Latin America, responsible for strategic and operational approaches of MCC in the Latin American Region, and overseeing development and implementation of MCC programs in the region.

Prior to MCC, Mr. Rhodes served as Director of Save the Children’s HIV/AIDS Program from 2003-2006. He directed and supervised the provision of technical and management support to Field Offices in Africa and Asia that plan and implement programs of HIV/AIDS prevention and care for children/youth. Mr. Rhodes also represented Save the Children USA in national, regional and global alliances addressing HIV/AIDS, including the International Save the Children Alliance, InterAction, and the Hope for African Children Initiative (HACI). Mr. Rhodes also previously served as Vice-President for Global Development at the Institute of International Education (I.I.E.), from 2001-2003.

From 1978 to 2001, Mr. Rhodes served as a U.S. Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), rising to the level of Career Minister in the Senior Foreign Service. During this period, Mr. Rhodes worked in the Latin America/Caribbean Bureau of USAID in Washington, and in five countries overseas, including Haiti, Morocco, Nepal, Guatemala and South Africa. He was Director of USAID/Guatemala and Central American Regional Programs from 1994-1998, and in his last tour of service (1998-2001), served as Mission Director in South Africa. He also served as an advisor to U.S. Ambassadors in Guatemala and South Africa, and was awarded the Agency’s Outstanding Career Service Award in 2001.

A native of Tucson, Arizona, Mr. Rhodes began his work in international development as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Bolivia in 1968. Prior to joining the Peace Corps, Mr. Rhodes earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Philosophy from Occidental College in Los Angeles, California and a Master’s Degree in International Relations from Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C.  Mr. Rhodes later studied at the School of Law (Boalt Hall), University of California at Berkeley, earning a Juris Doctor degree and subsequently working as a lawyer in the Washington, D.C. law firm of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver and Kampelman, and as Attorney-Adviser in the Department of State.  During his Foreign Service career, Mr. Rhodes also obtained a mid-career Master’s Degree in Public Policy in 1991, at Duke University’s Center for International Development.