Christine Lyons, Who Awarded Agency’s Largest Iraq Reconstruction Contract, Dies
FrontLines - February 2009
Christine Lyons
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Christine Lyons, 58, died Dec. 29 in Washington D.C. For 25 years, Lyons served as a USAID Foreign Service Officer throughout
Africa, Asia, and Latin America.
She began her career in 1984 as a commodity management
officer with the Agency, and she held her first overseas post in Honduras. Five years later, Lyons worked in Somalia and as a contracting officer to the USAID mission in East Africa. With the exception
of tours in India and Washington, D.C., she served in East Africa from 1990 to 1995, again from 1997 to 2000, and then most recently from 2004 to 2008.
Lyons awarded the largest construction contract in Agency history—the $1.8 billion contract for Iraq reconstruction—which upgraded Iraq’s infrastructure and delivered essential electricity, potable water, sanitation, and project management services. In addition,
Lyons managed many complex awards under extreme urgency.
Known as a mentor to her colleagues at the Agency, Lyons also devoted personal support to an orphanage in Nairobi, Kenya. She is survived by her daughter, Djanyeba Lyons, of Atlanta, Ga.
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