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Deputy Assistant Administrator
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Jennifer Adams is a career member of the Senior Foreign Service, class of Career Minister. She currently serves jointly as USAID Senior Advisor to the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute and as Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Inclusive Growth, Partnerships, and Innovation overseeing the Private Sector Engagement Hub and the Center for Economics and Market Development. Ms. Adams has been nominated to serve as the Ambassador to the Republic of Cabo Verde. Previously, she was a USAID Faculty Representative at the National War College, National Defense University, USAID/Mozambique Mission Director, Deputy Assistant Administrator and Acting Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Global Health, and the Director of the Office of Donor Engagement in the Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning. She also served as the Development Counselor at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, China and the USAID Mission Director at the U.S. Embassy Brasilia, Brazil.

Among her other assignments, Ms. Adams served as Director of the Health and Education Office, USAID/Senegal, the Director of the Office of Social Development at the USAID Mission in Almaty, Kazakhstan, and the Deputy Division Chief, Family Planning, Bureau for Global Health. Prior to joining USAID, she worked as a Population Economist for Dual and Associates in Rosslyn, Virginia.

Ms. Adams earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree from Johns Hopkins University, her Master of Arts Degree from Duke University, a Master of Philosophy Degree from the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, and her Doctoral Degree from Cambridge University. She speaks Portuguese and French.

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