Our Vision

Quadrille Associates exists to promote human flourishing and opportunities to address real-world problems of development.

Our Mission

The purpose of Quadrille Associates is to seize opportunities, connect people, and develop resources to make a better world. We do this by bringing to bear the training, experience, and drive to address pressing economic, political, and social issues.

For example, in Costa Rica Quadrille Associates brought together the leadership and expertise to develop concrete and achievable plans to increase productivity for the agricultural sector, fostering exports and providing greater choices for Costa Rican consumers.

Leadership

Quadrille Associates is led by Dr. Robert Lloyd and Dr. Craig Hanson, assisted by a dedicated team that supports the vision and mission of Quadrille Associates. Together, they offer the expertise and experience to assist you with your development needs.

Robert Lloyd is an experienced leader in international development, international conflict management and negotiations, democratization, and security.

As a specialist in government and inter-government relations, international organizations, and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and the private sector, he has advised governments in Sub-Saharan Africa and Central America.

Lloyd has over three decades of experience in international development in over thirty countries in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Caribbean, and the Middle East. He has worked closely with USAID, the U.S. State Department, the United Nations, and international think tanks focusing on security, development, and democratization.

Robert Lloyd

Senior Partner, Quadrille Associates

Recent clients include public-private initiatives in Central America, negotiations between regional governments and international investors, program evaluation for established NGO initiatives in Senegal, and university-government partnerships on local development projects.

Lloyd has proven leadership in managing multifaceted and dynamic projects, leading multicultural teams, handling complex negotiations in environments of political and economic insecurity, and dealing with clients from local to national to international levels.

He holds a doctoral degree in international relations (focusing on security and negotiations) from Johns Hopkins’ Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies and a master’s degree in planning and development from Cornell University.

He has held teaching and research positions at American and Indian universities and speaks English, Spanish, and Portuguese. He resides in Jupiter, Florida.

Craig Hanson is a trusted problem-solver for international nongovernmental organizations and for-profit enterprises seeking to deliver sector-changing services abroad.

Hanson advises his clients on best practices and strategic solutions to a wide variety of design and operational needs in international operations. These range from development and advancement strategies, knowledge-transfer systems, government relations, and program design.

Over more than twenty years he has developed a network of capacities and relationships which he brings to bear on the many projects in which he has taken part.

Hanson has been engaged with development projects in Central America, throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, Central Asia, southeast Asia, and in the nonprofit industry in the United States. He has negotiated financing agreements with a variety of public and private entities on projects ranging from small entrepreneurial startups to large-scale economic sector realignment initiatives. Projects include establishing institutional development plans, antiquities preservation, agricultural cooperative revitalization, entrepreneurship training, capacity-building, and systems hardening. He has extensive experience in proposal strategy, resource identification, and coalition-building.

Craig Hanson

Senior Partner, Quadrille Associates

What We Offer

Quadrille Associates combines decades of experience in international development, advanced training, a clear focus, and cross-cultural competencies to manage complex projects through all phases of development. We assist you by providing insight, intelligence, and integration of all facets of complex projects. We offer three distinct products to best serve your needs:

Project Consulting

·Expert consulting on international development projects.

·Designing, creating, and executing institutional development plans for the not-for-profit sector

·Threat assessment and risk mitigation

·Emerging market environment analysis

·Corporate social responsibility assistance on venture capital projects

Clients and projects

·Tourism and historical development project on the Caribbean coast of Honduras

·Agricultural revitalization and development project in Costa Rica

·Social enterprise business retail and training in Rwanda

·Faith-based emergency relief project in Ukraine

·Refugee resettlement and employment project in northern Uganda

Development project in Rwanda

Project Management

·Project monitoring of processes and deliverables

·CSR Optimization

·Marketing

Clients and projects

·Upscale grocery store franchise in Costa Rica

·Private venture business formation in Meghalaya, India

·Consulting services on business incubators in Bangalore, India

Development project in India

Seminars and Workshops

Clients and projects

·Training workshop on small business development in Senegal

·Training workshop in the Dominican Republic

·Presentation at international legal business conference in Miami, Florida

·Gateway Education/Teach Beyond

Workshop conference in the Dominican Republic

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Agricultural revitalization project in Costa Rica