Rod MacAlister
International Development
Rodney MacAlister is Founder and Principle of The MacAlister Group & Associates, a virtual consultancy he formed in 2014, and Senior Advisor at CSIS. MacAlister was Founder and CEO of Monetizing Gas Africa Inc. (2015-2022), a gas and power project development company for Sub-Saharan Africa; General Manager of VAALCO Energy in Gabon (2011-2014); MD of the Africa Middle Market Fund, 2008-2011; CEO of the US African Development Foundation in the George.W. Bush Administration, 2006-2007; Independent consultant in operating in conflict zones, 2003-2006; and various positions at ConocoPhillips, 1978-2003, much of it in Africa, in Business Development and as GM in the Congo (Brazzaville). He also headed Conoco’s Washington office for 8 years. In Cape Town, South Africa, he headed the State Department Overseas Security Advisory Council.
MacAlister holds BA and MA degrees in International Relations from the University of Redlands, California, and spent a year of post-graduate work at The Sorbonne, Paris.
