Wilbert Georges
Founder & Executive Lead
Wilbert Georges is the Founder and Executive Lead of AGRILEAD Training & Consulting LLC. An agronomist, international development professional, agricultural educator, and program leader, he brings more than 20 years of experience in agricultural development, rural development, institutional capacity building, applied agronomy, and program and project leadership. He currently serves as Program Director at Heifer International Haiti, where he coordinates agricultural and rural-development programs, supervises project managers and multidisciplinary teams, and provides strategic oversight of complex program portfolios. His responsibilities span implementation planning, operational management, risk management, donor compliance, monitoring, evaluation, learning, and institutional coordination.
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Experience & Institutional Partnerships
Throughout his career, Wilbert has managed or contributed to development programs supported by major international institutions, including USAID, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the Global Environment Facility (GEF), the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), and the European Union. This experience has required him to coordinate multiple projects, partners, technical disciplines, and stakeholder interests across initiatives involving livestock systems and market development, biodiversity conservation, cocoa-based agroforestry, climate resilience, watershed management, agricultural innovation, and producer and cooperative capacity building. His work has also included institutional collaboration with AYITIKA S.A., the Organization for the Rehabilitation of the Environment (ORE), and the Jardin Botanique des Cayes (JBC) through the Biodiversité Sud initiative. Earlier in his career, he served as dean of two university faculties of agronomy, with responsibilities for academic leadership, curriculum development, research, field training, and institutional partnerships, and worked as a local governance and budget-planning consultant under the USAID-supported LOKAL program.
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Building AGRILEAD in Florida
Through AGRILEAD, Wilbert is developing a Florida-based platform that draws on this combination of agricultural expertise, international development experience, program-management discipline, institutional coordination, training, curriculum development, and monitoring and evaluation. AGRILEAD’s planned work focuses on practical agricultural education, applied agronomy, bilingual and multilingual outreach, technical assistance, curriculum development, program support, and rural capacity building for beginning farmers, small-scale producers, immigrant and multilingual agricultural communities, and agricultural and community-based organizations. Its approach is intended to translate technical knowledge into practical, field-oriented learning while complementing existing agricultural education and Extension-aligned efforts.