Dan Martinko is a Global Practice Specialist in DAI’s Security, Transparency, Accountability, and Rule of Law sector, providing thought leadership and technical assistance to overseas projects and business development efforts. A DAI employee since 2010, Dan specializes in conducting assessments and developing effective strategies to implement complex activities that build systems of good governance, diversify economies, fight corruption, stabilize countries in the midst of conflict, counter violent extremism, and support institutional and policy reform.

He has conducted engagements in more than a dozen countries spanning Central Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Sub-Saharan Africa, and the Caribbean. Dan has provided expert consulting to clients in both the public and private sectors, including the U.S. and U.K governments, multinational energy companies, as well as national governments throughout the world. Dan recently advised a client in the Gulf Cooperation Council region regarding its economic diversification strategy and has supported major multinationals to develop their strategies to engage effectively with local labor markets and supply bases in emerging and frontier markets. He also supported the design of an innovative tool to measure how sector integration—principally in education and health—on a local governance project in Sub-Saharan Africa.

Prior to his work with DAI, Dan worked with a major nonprofit research institute leading its growth initiatives in public health, and in the legal services industry as an in-house ICT consultant and a legal assistant supporting complex international litigation and arbitration matters on behalf of corporate and sovereign government clients.

• M.A., education and human development, The George Washington University
• B.A., political science, Indiana University