Our Team
JESCA Solutions LLC has a diverse core team of highly qualified professionals in all our focus areas with expereince in development finance institutions, international organizations, UN agencies, private international development consulting firms, international and local NGOs, the private sector, and national and local governments. We have managed projects in different capacities in the United States, Latin America, the Caribbean, and Africa and are fluent in English, Hindi, Spanish, French, and Haitian Creole.
Mr. Richard F. America
Jr., Economist, Educator, Policy Analyst , Advocate for Economic Equity
Richard F. America. is an educator, and policy analyst with experience in economic development, public policy, and management in the U.S. and Africa. He is Professor of the Practice, Emeritus, at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business.
He consults on development at America Consulting.
He holds a BS in Business Administration (Penn State), and an MBA (Harvard Business School). Early in his career, he was a Consultant and Development Economist at Stanford Research Institute, (SRI), focusing on urban/regional projects. His academic roles included Lecturer, and Director of Urban Programs, at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, and Lecturer at Stanford Business School.
He Joined Bank of America, focused on community reinvestment. Then consulted with the House Banking Committee, and Congressional Budget Office, and Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, in Washington, D.C.
He was Director of Capital Development at the Minority Business Development Administration/Department of Commerce, and Senior Policy Advisor at the U S Small Business Administration, working on economic revitalization in distressed areas. He was a co-founder of the National Economic Association, and served as its 1985 president. His seminal books—The Wealth of Races, and Paying the Social Debt—propose frameworks for understanding, and correcting, four centuries of unjust enrichment. He has published five other books, and major articles in Harvard Business Review, Journal of Private Equity, and other leading magazines
In Africa, he fostered management education by creating partnerships with the University of Botswana, and University of Pretoria. This established a Southern-African Business School network. And, later the Association of African Business Schools, spanning 50 institutions. His outreach included engagements in 25 African countries and 40 universities. He has been Visiting Professor in Dakar, Senegal,. Institut Supérieur de Management (ISM).
