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Administrator Samantha Power
Administrator

Samantha Power serves as the Administrator of USAID.

Chris Milligan
Counselor

Chris Milligan serves as Agency Counselor.

Michael Camilleri
Senior Advisor to the USAID Administrator and Executive Director of USAID’s Northern Triangle Task Force

Michael Camilleri serves as Senior Advisor to the USAID Administrator and Executive Director of USAID’s Northern Triangle Task Force.

Mark Feierstein
Principal Advisor to the Administrator

Mark Feierstein serves as Principal Advisor to the Administrator.

Gideon Maltz
Chief of Staff

Gideon Maltz is Chief of Staff of USAID.

Colin Thomas-Jensen
National Security Director

Colin Thomas-Jensen (he/him) is the National Security Director at USAID

Jennifer Adams
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator

Dr. Jennifer Adams is currently the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator in the U.S. Agency for International Development’s (USAID)  Bureau for Global Health.

Colleen Allen
Assistant Administrator

Colleen R. Allen is the Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Management and is responsible for oversight and general  management of several Bureau offices.

Jim Barnhart
Assistant to the Administrator

Jim Barnhart currently serves as Deputy Coordinator for Development for Feed the Future, and Assistant to the Administrator for USAID’s Bureau for Resilience and Food Security

Jeremy Bernton
Executive Secretary

Jeremy Bernton is the Executive Secretary of the U.S. Agency for International Development.

Sarah Charles
Assistant to the Administrator

Sarah Charles is the Assistant to the Administrator for the Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance (BHA)

Margot Ellis
Acting Assistant Administrator

Margot Ellis serves as Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia.

Portrait of Karl Fickenscher
Acting Assistant Administrator

Karl Fickenscher is a Acting Assistant Administrator in the Bureau for Development, Democracy, and Innovation (DDI).

Karen Freeman
Acting Assistant Administrator

Karen L. Freeman is the Acting Assistant Administrator for Asia.

Robert Jenkins
Assistant to the Administrator

Robert Jenkins serves as Assistant to the Administrator for the Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization (CPS). 

Bob Leavitt
Chief Human Capital Officer

Bob Leavitt serves as Chief Human Capital Officer of USAID’s Office of Human Capital and Talent Management.

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Chief Information Officer

Jay Mahanand serves as Chief Information Officer

Peter Malnak, Acting Assistant Administrator
Acting Assistant Administrator

Peter Malnak is the Acting Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Africa.

Ismael Martinez
Acting Director

Ismael Martinez is the Acting Director for the Office of Civil Rights and Diversity (OCRD)

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Chief Financial Officer

Reginald W. Mitchell serves as USAID Chief Financial Officer

Peter Natiello
Acting Assistant Administrator

Peter Natiello currently serves as Acting Assistant Administrator in The U.S. Agency for International  Development’s (USAID) Latin America and Caribbean Bureau.

Andrew Plitt
Acting Assistant Administrator

Andrew Plitt serves as the Acting Assistant Administrator for the Middle East region.

Tricia Schmitt
Director

Tricia Schmitt is the Director of the Office of Budget and Resource Management (BRM) in USAID/Washington.

Michele Sumilas
Assistant to the Administrator

Michele Sumilas currently serves as the Assistant to the Administrator of the Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning (PPL).

Margaret L Taylor
General Counsel

Margaret L. Taylor is the General Counsel of USAID.

COL John Voorhees
Director of Security

John Voorhees serves as Director of the Office of Security.

John Watson
Acting Director

Mr. John M. Watson is the Acting Director of the Office of Small and Disadvantage Business Utilization (OSDBU).

Last updated: July 02, 2021

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