Peter A. Wiebler was sworn in as Mission Director of USAID/Zambia in August 2022. Before his appointment to Zambia, Mr. Wiebler served as Mission Director for USAID/Caucasus in Tbilisi, Georgia from 2018-2022. Prior to his assignment to Georgia, Mr. Wiebler served as the Acting Director of the Office of Budget and Resource Management (BRM) in USAID/Washington.
A career Senior Foreign Service Officer, Mr. Wiebler has extensive senior U.S. Government and private foundation experience in democratization. Previous to his current Senior Leadership Group assignment at USAID Washington, he led the Democracy and Governance (DG) portfolios in some of the Agency's largest and most sensitive missions, including Afghanistan, Belarus, Moldova, West Bank/Gaza, Serbia, and Ukraine. Prior to joining USAID in 2002, Mr. Wiebler led Freedom House’s Budapest Regional Office for seven years, spearheading democratization initiatives across Central and Eastern Europe,
Mr. Wiebler graduated cum laude from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with a focus on international politics and the former Soviet Union. He received his Master’s degree in international politics from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy. He speaks German, Russian and basic Serbian. Mr. Wiebler is married with two children.