CIRED welcomes Joshua Anderson

The CIRED team is pleased to welcome Joshua Anderson, business development director. 

Anderson comes to CIRED with a strong background in international business development. Prior to joining CIRED he worked as grant acquisition team manager at World Vision Philippines in Manila. In this role, he led a team that focused on acquiring grants from international institutional donors such as the U.S. Agency for International Development, European Union and Gates Foundation.

In his new position, he will spearhead CIRED’s business development, managing all steps of project acquisition from the initial identification stages through proposal preparation and final award. He will work closely with the CIRED executive director, the director of operations and program development, and other team members to achieve successful responses to funding proposals.

“My family and I are very happy to be in a great town like Blacksburg, working with CIRED to connect VT and its faculty to the world through international development projects. It is my hope that these projects will transform the lives of people in other countries and also the VT faculty implementing them,” said Anderson.