David Stillman, Principal and co-founder
Jeanne Betsock Stillman, Principal and co-founder
G. Marie Agnew-Marcelli, PhD, Consultant in Scientific and Medical Information
Scott Wright, JD, Attorney
J. E. Challinor Stillman, Staff Associate
Valerie Swinson Stillman, Administrative Associate

David Stillman, PhD

David Stillman is a founder and principal with Strategies for Development, Inc., which incorporated in 1998.

David is a founder and the first Executive Director of the Public-Private Alliance Foundation, which was established in 2006. He was formerly the general manager of the United Nations Public-Private Alliance for Rural Development, for which Madagascar and the Dominican Republic are pilot countries. Stillman also consults on human security issues, peace-building, human rights, gender and United Nations system development cooperation.

Stillman worked with the United Nations Secretariat from 1974 to 2004. As a Senior Officer in the Department of Economic and Social Affairs, he was a member of the team that supports the deliberations of the Economic and Social Council and the General Assembly. Previously he was an Advisor in the Office of the Under-Secretary-General for Development Support and Management Services. In the mid-1980s he served as Assistant Resident Representative in Islamabad, Pakistan, with the UN Development Programme, responsible chiefly for agricultural programs. Before joining the UN he worked in Togo, Ghana and Kenya.

Stillman was president of the United Nations Association of the United States of America (UNA-USA) Westchester Chapter (2003-2007), and is a member of the board of the New York State Southern Division of UNA-USA (2003 – 2009). He is also a member of the board of JumpStart International and an honorary board member of the North Carolina-based American Freedom Association.

Stillman holds a BA from the School of International Service of the American University and an MA and PhD in political science from Duke University. He has traveled extensively internationally. Stillman speaks English and French. Honors include Who's Who in America.

Jeanne Betsock Stillman, MSPH

Jeanne Betsock Stillman is a principal and co-founder of Strategies for Development, Inc., which was formed in 1998. She serves as President of “Stratdev.” Jeanne is experienced in non-profit management, international public health, gender issues and program development.

Jeanne served as the Director of the Awards Selection Process of the MDG Awards Committee. In 2004 she was part of a team that developed a Master Plan for Agriculture in Madagascar. She has designed and led training programs for health professionals in the US, many sub-Saharan African countries and Tunisia, Haiti and Pakistan. She edited an 11-volume Training Course in Women's Health (IDT, 1993), and supervised the translation into French of a training course on HIV/AIDS. She was Associate Editor of the two-volume International Encyclopedia of Population (Macmillan/Free Press, 1982).

Stillman is a founder and Secretary of the Board of the Public-Private Alliance Foundation and editor of its newsletter. Active in the United Nations Association of the USA, Stillman is President of the Southern New York State Division and a former Middle Atlantic Representative to the Council of Chapters and Divisions Steering Committee. She served as Board Secretary and Executive Director of the Westchester Chapter. She created and directs the project “Going Global with the UN,” a series of 70 half-hour-long videos about the United Nations and global issues that appear on public access TV and are now available online. She is a contributing editor to three "Newspapers in Education" supplements to The Journal News (on the United Nations, the UN Millennium Development Goals, and the Power of Partnerships. She produced and directed “Violence Against Women,” a documentary video of women’s testimony (New York, 1993) given prior to the International Human Rights Summit. She was project director for “Population and People of Faith,” which won a bronze medal at the New York International Film Festival in 1991.

Stillman holds a BA from the American University School of International Service and an MSPH from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Public Health. She also carried out doctoral coursework at Columbia University School of Public Health. Honors include Who's Who in Medicine and Healthcare, Who's Who in America and Who's Who of American Women.

CURRENT OR RECENT AFFILIATIONS

• International Youth Council (In formation), Member, Advisory Committee
• American Public Health Association; Member, International Health Section
• United Nations Association of the USA (UNA-USA) Westchester Chapter: Secretary, Board of Directors , (2003-2006), Executive Director (2006-2007); Mid-Atlantic Representative to the Council of Chapters and Divisions (2005-present), Chair, Sub-Committee on Communications (2007-present); Southern NY State Division: Member, Board of Directors (2005-present), Vice President (2008-2009)
• American Freedom Association (North Carolina), Honorary member, Board of Directors (2003-)

G. Marie Agnew-Marcelli, PhD
Consultant in Scientific and Medical Information

Dr. Agnew-Marcelli’s professional experience is primarily in the pharmaceutical industry and the field of law, particularly the application of science in answering regulatory challenges and the defense of product liability and medical malpractice litigation. She has been qualified as an expert witness before state and federal courts on various aspects of therapeutics, efficacy and toxicity of drug products.

Dr. Agnew-Marcelli provides consulting services to JumpStart International in relation to the development of technical education programs including laboratory development in relation to engineering and related fields.
While with Sterling Winthrop Research Institute her responsibilities included formulation and stability testing of medicinal products, evaluation of biological effects in relation to chemical structure, oversight responsibility for New Drug Application chronic toxicity protocols and epidemiological evaluation of chronic disease in man and domestic animals – including tropical diseases - to identify future therapeutic needs. In addition, for Sterling subsidiaries in 17 countries, she supervised the development of new products and the necessary testing to insure their registration.
During her tenure as senior scientist and research fellow with several toxic tort law firms operating internationally, her responsibilities in regulatory affairs included development of the scientific support for responses to domestic and foreign government regulatory and safety challenges. In the forensic and litigation areas a primary responsibility was the development of scientific and medical bases for response to product liability and occupational health causation claims. To accomplish this required a continuing assessment of the validity and reliability of data underlying claimed “causal” risk factors in chronic diseases. Occupational and environmental emphasis was on heavy metal toxicity, especially, therapeutic iron compounds, environmental lead, occupational titanium, asbestos and both occupational and environmental arsenicals.

Outside the usual pharmaceutical and litigation assignments Dr. Agnew-Marcelli has studied in-depth the impact of social history, particularly deprivation, environmental and psychosocial factors, on health in general and the later development of chronic diseases. Additionally, she has substantial experience in emergency preparedness (Civil Defense) – primarily in nuclear defense – but also at various levels of individual and small group preparation. She served at senior decision-making levels for a 3-county Target Support Area during major national tests and an actual multi-state emergency which provided practical evaluation of extent and effectiveness of the unit’s advanced preparation and response.

G. Marie Agnew-Marcelli received a B.S.Chem from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in professional chemistry. Subsequent graduate work at Rensselaer, New York University and Syracuse University led to an M.S. in medicinal chemistry and a Ph.D in Biological Sciences with a minor in Public Administration. Her postdoctoral studies were in biostatistics and epidemiology.

Dr. Agnew-Marcelli is the author of several papers on pharmaceutical and toxicological subjects and has also published on topics in historical demography and family history. She is listed in American Men and Women of Science.

Scott Wright, JD, Attorney

Scott Wright acts as Pro Bono Attorney with Strategies for Development. He has been in private legal practice since 1988. His practice involves the representation of lenders, borrowers and arrangers in international trade finance transactions. He currently is involved in over $2 billion of emerging market trade finance transactions in numerous countries around the world. He has significant experience representing creditors in U.S. bankruptcy matters. He also represents US and international insurers, reinsurers, and financial institutions in diverse capital markets, insurance and derivative transactions. Through his practice, Mr. Wright has developed a network of legal contacts in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America.

In 2003 and 2004, Mr. Wright represented the Government of Japan in a dispute with Loral Space & Communications over the MTSAT-1R satellite. The MTSAT-1R satellite replaced the existing weather satellite for weather forecasting in all of Asia. Mr. Wright protected the Government of Japan from losing its multi-trillion Yen investment in this project. This matter was reported by the American Lawyer. "Japan v. Loral," Big Suits Column, American Lawyer (April 2004).

Mr. Wright has written and spoken widely. His article on sovereign trade finance was published in 2005. "Sovereign Trade Finance Transactions: A Legal Perspective," Reed Smith Financial Services Newsletter "Material Matters," vol. III, no. 1 (January, 2005). His speech on United States bankruptcy law to The Japan Industrial Institute, "The United States Bankruptcy System and the Japanese Bankruptcy System: A Comparison," (Tokyo, May 2004), was published by the Japanese Institute of International Business Law. Journal of the Japanese Institute of International Business Law, vol. 32, no. 7 (July 2004) and vol. 32, no. 8 (August 2004). Mr. Wright also is the co-author of The Law of Reinsurance Claims (Andrews Publications, 1994/1997) and @Risk-Internet and E-Commerce Insurance and Reinsurance Legal Issues (Reactions Publishing Group, 2000).

He is named one of the world's leading lawyers by Euromoney Institutional Investor Plc. and is included in the International Who's Who of Insurance and Reinsurance Lawyers.

He is a 1988 graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where he was the Current Developments Editor of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. He graduated from Lake Forest College in 1985. Please visit his website at: http://www.swrightpc.com

J. E. Challinor Stillman, Staff Associate

Challinor provides occasional management and marketing assistance.  She is also currently a Trade Account Manager with Resource Furniture.

As an intern and now Staff Associate with Strategies for Development since 1999, Challinor created a database and resource book on foundations for a non-profit client; attended meetings with clients; and assisted in preparing proposals and brochures. She has also worked on the business side of the company. She has worked since 2005 in retail sales, as a design consultant with her own business, and as a trade account manager.

Challinor worked in summers of 2002 and 2003 as an intern with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, in the Division of ECOSOC Support and Coordination, and the Water, Natural Resources, and SIDS Branch of the Division for Sustainable Development. During this time she researched and wrote papers, attended and summarized meetings and updated an article on the history of women's involvement at the UN for the Group for Equal Rights for Women in the UN (GERWUN).

Challinor graduated from Smith College in January 2005 with a major in anthropology, a minor in third world development and a Five-College Certificate in African Studies. She spent a semester at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. She is a 2001 graduate of Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire and studied at The Mountain School in Vermont.

Valerie Swinson Stillman, Administrative Associate

Valerie Stillman provides administrative and bookkeeping support to Strategies to Development, Inc. and to its client, the Public-Private Alliance Foundation, a 501(c) non-profit organization working internationally.  She has worked as assistant to the office administrator in a prominent law firm, as an office manager, event planner, and banquet manager in the restaurant industry; as a head bank teller; and in the social service industry in an administrative capacity.

Valerie is proficient in QuickBooks and Microsoft Office including Excel, Word, Outlook and Powerpoint.  She is also proficient in Microsoft Dynamics Great Plains, AS 400 and other software used in financial management, business analytics, e-commerce, supply chain management, manufacturing, project accounting, field service, customer relationship management, retail management, and human resource management. 

Valerie is a graduate of the Philadelphia High School of Performing Arts and has extensive performance, choreography and dance teaching experience.