Office of Inspector General's Chief of Staff
Dona Dinkler
Dona M. Dinkler is a career member of the Foreign Service, and a Senior Foreign Service
nominee, and has served in numerous positions worldwide with the U.S. Agency for
International Development, Office of Inspector General.
Ms. Dinkler joined USAID/OIG as a criminal investigator in 1985. She entered the
management ranks in 1992 and has served as an operational special agent in charge of
both domestic and overseas divisions, as well as Chief of the Investigative Support
Division in Washington, DC. In 2000, Ms. Dinkler was appointed as the Regional
Inspector in Budapest, Hungary, the first woman in OIG to serve in such a position.
In 2006, she became OIG's Chief of Staff.
Prior to joining USAID, Ms. Dinkler was the chief investigator for the Arizona
Corporation Commission's Securities Division in Phoenix, Arizona. She started her
law enforcement career in 1974 with the Sedgwick County District Attorney's Office,
Consumer Protection Division, in Wichita, Kansas.
Ms. Dinkler holds a BS in criminal justice and sociology from Wichita State
University and is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia.
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