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Ulrich Schmitt

Ulrich Schmitt

ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group Country Manager for Moldova

Areas of Expertise
  • Agriculture & Rural Development
  • Community-Driven Development
  • Conflict and fragile states
  • Poverty
  • Rural Development
  • Private Sector Development

Ulrich Schmitt, a German national is the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Group Country Manager for Moldova effective July 1, 2025

Before that, Schmitt served as Operations Manager for Myanmar and Thailand, based in Bangkok, overseeing the operational program, office operation, and strategic engagement of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ in both countries. He brings more than 20 years of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ experience to the role having worked as Lead Agriculture Economist in the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳¡¯s Europe and Central Asia Department in Washington, DC, as Program Leader for Sustainable Development in the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Office for Sri Lanka and the Maldives based in Colombo, and as Senior Natural Resources Economist on investment operations and analytical tasks based in Beijing, China. Schmitt holds a Ph.D. in natural resources management from Technical University of Munich.?

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