From January 2007
Eric Boyle
Director of Program Development
Eurasia Foundation
Eric Boyle is Director of Program Development for Eurasia Foundation, a non-profit foundation supporting economic and civic programs in Ukraine and other countries of the former Soviet Union. As Director of Program Development, he implements the foundation’s development strategy: maintaining donor relations, exploring new funding prospects, developing new program designs and overseeing proposal preparation.
From 2004 to 2007, Mr. Boyle worked in Kyiv, Ukraine with the Foundation, first as its Regional Director for Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova and then as action Regional Vice President. As Director he oversaw all aspects of a $2.5 million annual program fostering civil society, private enterprise development and administrative reforms with funding from the US and European governments as well as diverse private donors.,
In 2006 as Regional Vice President, he initiated the Foundation’s localization strategy in the region, conceptualizing the mission and structure of a local Ukrainian foundation: the East Europe Foundation, subsequently launched in November 2007. In 2006 and 2007, he also served as the Chair of Managing Board for the New Eurasia Establishment, an organization supporting business education and clinical legal education in Belarus.
He has many years of field experience in the former Soviet Union, having worked for other non-profit and governmental development agencies in Ukraine, Central Asia and Armenia. He has been a resident advisor for the USAID Local Government Initiative in Kazakhstan, the Director of Programs for the South Caucasus Regional Office of Catholic Relief Services and a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kyrgyzstan.
Mr. Boyle holds an M.A. in Russian/East European Affairs and an M.P.A. in Public Finance, both from Indiana University. He received a B.A. in German from the College of William and Mary. He is fluent in Russian and also speaks German, Armenian, Kyrgyz, and Ukrainian.
