Our Team
JESCA Solutions LLC has a diverse core team of highly qualified professionals in all our focus areas with experience 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.
Our History
JESCA Solutions LLC is a boutique firm, founded in 2016 in Maryland (USA). In 2018, a local Haitian subsidiary, JESCA Solutions Haiti SA, opened in Haiti.
JESCA Solutions was originally created by a group of highly experienced International Development professionals from various backgrounds who believe that solving the world’s most pressing economic, social, and environmental problems requires mobilizing a coalition of stakeholders comprised of central and local governments, international development institutions and partners, NGOs, philanthropic organizations, the private sectors, and community-based organizations.
We advise creating an enabling environment with sound policies and regulations to unleash market-based solutions, capital investments, and private-sector participation to help solve the world’s most pressing challenges. We advise the private sector on designing and implementing their sustainability strategies to create greater value for all their stakeholders.
We aim to leverage all these actors’ expertise, tools, knowledge, and resources to bring about sustainable, impactful, and meaningful changes through deep understanding of global and local political, social, and institutional contexts to maximize impacts. We aim to support all these actors in their efforts to help build a more sustainable world.
Our Values
Integrity, professionalism, and a commitment to excellence form the foundation of everything we do. We uphold the highest ethical standards, honor local cultures and traditions, and actively promote inclusivity and diversity. Every project we undertake is driven by a strong sense of purpose, dedication, and an unwavering passion for creating meaningful, lasting impact.
The Team
Advisory Board
Dr. Cezley Sampson, CD, FACET
Dr. Cezley Sampson is a globally respected infrastructure economist and regulatory expert with over four decades of experience in utility reform, energy policy, public-private partnerships (PPP), and institutional restructuring across more than 20 countries in Africa, the Caribbean, the Middle East, and South Asia. He currently serves as an independent consultant advising governments, development institutions, and private sector stakeholders. Previously, he was Director of Privatisation and Regulatory Practice at London Economics Ltd, Principal Consultant and Head of Energy Practice at CPCS Transcom Ltd, and held senior roles with the World Bank, DFID, Oxford Policy Management, and the Adam Smith Institute.
Dr. Sampson has led electricity reform programs in Oman, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Iraq, and Jamaica, guiding utility unbundling, competitive markets, and regulatory design. He developed Jamaica’s National Energy Policy (2005) and Telecommunications Policy (1995), and contributed to energy/competition reforms in Malawi, Tanzania, and Nigeria. His PPP expertise includes structuring frameworks and transactions for electricity, rail, ports, and urban transit across Africa and the Caribbean, with specialized knowledge in legal/regulatory frameworks, tariff design, market structuring, institutional capacity building, and asset transfer strategies.
A pioneer in Caribbean management education, he founded the University of the West Indies’ Mona School of Business as Executive Director, establishing a leading graduate institution with international linkages. He has authored over 60 publications, including the landmark book From State to Market: The Journey of the Jamaican Economy.
Dr. Sampson holds a PhD in Public Utilities Economics (University of the West Indies), MA in Marketing (Lancaster University, UK), Certificate in Engineering Management & Aircraft Administration (Cranfield University), and Higher National Diploma in Business Studies (Welsh College of Advanced Technology). His honors include Jamaica’s Commander of the Order of Distinction (CD); Fellowships at the African Centre for Economic Transformation (FACET) and Jamaica Institute of Management (FJIM, where he served as Chairman); memberships in the Mauritius International Advisory Council on Competition, Institute for Regulation, Competition and Investment (India), and Rex Nettleford Foundation; Associateship at the PJ Patterson Global Centre for Africa-Caribbean Advocacy; and Alumni Ambassador status for Lancaster University.
Currently an independent consultant advising governments, development institutions, and the private sector, he previously held senior roles with the World Bank, DFID, London Economics Ltd (Director of Privatisation), CPCS Transcom Ltd (Head of Energy Practice), Oxford Policy Management, and the Adam Smith Institute.
He has led major electricity reforms in Oman, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Iraq, and Jamaica—guiding utility unbundling, competition, and market design. He developed Jamaica’s National Energy Policy (2005) and Telecommunications Policy (1995), and contributed to energy reforms in Malawi, Tanzania, and Nigeria. His PPP expertise covers electricity, rail, ports, and urban transit frameworks across Africa and the Caribbean.
A pioneer in Caribbean management education, he founded the Mona School of Business (University of the West Indies) as its first Executive Director. He authored over 60 publications, including the landmark book From State to Market: The Journey of the Jamaican Economy.
Mr. Richard F. America Jr., Economist, Educator, Policy Analyst , Advocate for Economic Equity
Richard F. America Jr. is a distinguished economist, educator, and policy analyst renowned for advancing economic development, public policy, and racial equity in the U.S. and Africa. As Professor of the Practice Emeritus at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, he shaped industrial and labor economics.
He holds a BS in Business Administration (Penn State) and an MBA (Harvard Business School). Early in his career, he served as a Development Economist at the Stanford Research Institute, focusing on urban/regional projects. His academic roles included Lecturer and Director of Urban Programs at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, lecturer at Stanford Business School, and Associate Director of Urban Programs at Haas.
America dedicated two decades to the U.S. Department of Commerce and Small Business Administration, driving economic revitalization in distressed areas. A reparations policy pioneer, he co-founded 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 addressing historical economic injustices.
In Africa, he fostered management education through partnerships with the University of Botswana and University of Pretoria, establishing a pan-African business school network spanning 50 institutions. His outreach included engagements in 25 African countries and 40 universities. Currently, he teaches enterprise development as a Visiting Professor at Dakar’s Institut Supérieur de Management (ISM).
Dr. P. Stanley Yoder, PhD
Dr Stanley P. Yoder, PhD is a social and medical anthropologist who has spent his career designing and directing research on health-related issues in African countries. In graduate school at UCLA, he earned a Masters
In African Studies, an MPH, and a PhD in anthropology. His dissertation research was conducted in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where he lived in small Cokwe villages to serve as an apprentice to local healers in order to understand the basis of their medical practice. He also studied popular knowledge of illness and treatments in order to understand how families diagnose illnesses and select treatments. Yoder’s dissertation described local knowledge of illness and healing as well as the more esoteric knowledge and practice of local healers.
Yoder’s focus on the study of local knowledge of illness, and the methods he used to understand local decision-making, served him well in his career as consultant and research director working in west, east, central, and southern Africa. He spent seven years as part of a research team based at the
Annenberg School of Communication of the University of Pennsylvania that evaluated the impact of the health communication projects of the Academy for Educational Development. He spent another 17 years working as the qualitative research specialist with the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) group of Macro International based in Silver Spring, MD. DHS has had a USAID contract since 1984 to conduct nationally representative surveys related to morbidity, mortality, family planning, HIV/AIDS, and related topics in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Yoder was asked to design and direct research projects related to local understanding of survey issues, or HIV/AIDS, or taking antiretrovirals for HIV infection, or family planning, or child health.in African countries
Thanks to his experience, Yoder has become an expert in research design and research proposals, in questionnaire development, in training interviewers and supervising qualitative and quantitative research projects, and in the analysis of qualitative research data. He has specialized in the study of local knowledge and experience related to health and healing as well as other topics. He has extensive experience in the development of questioning guides and questionnaires in local languages. He has directed research in more than 20 countries in Africa. He is fluent in French and has worked in Portuguese, Swahili, and Cokwe (Chokwe, Quioco).
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