Tony Pipa

Tony Pipa is Deputy Assistant to the Administrator for USAID’s Bureau of Policy, Planning and Learning, where his portfolio is focused on aid effectiveness and donor engagement as well as streamlining foreign assistance planning and reporting.  As an independent consultant prior to joining USAID, he directed the NGO Leaders Forum based at Harvard University, a semi-annual retreat for chief executives of major U.S.-based international relief and development NGOs, and assisted international NGOs with change management and strategic planning.  He was also a founder and senior advisor to the Louisiana Disaster Recovery Foundation, formed after Hurricane Katrina. 

Pipa is co-author with Sam Worthington of “Private Development Assistance: The Importance of International NGOs and Foundations in a New Aid Architecture,” published by the Brookings Institution, as well as several reports on humanitarian assistance and recovery in the Gulf Coast.  Pipa previously served as founding executive director of the Warner Foundation in North Carolina and has been founding staff or board chair of several other nonprofit organizations.  He attended Stanford University, earned a B.A. from Duke University and an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School.