Please note this is a hybrid event - you have the option to attend in person or virtually. Registrations are required for all attendees. For in-person attendees, the event will run from 11:45 am - 2 pm and will include lunch. The live stream will begin at 12:55 pm (virtual attendees will be sent a link for the event via email).
Join DACOR and UAA for a reflection on the first three years of the Administration’s USAID programs and U.S. foreign policy objectives with USAID Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman. Former USAID Counselor Chris Milligan will engage Ambassador Coleman in conversation.
Deputy Administrator Isobel Coleman is responsible for USAID’s policy and programming, overseeing the Agency’s Regional and Pillar Bureaus. As Deputy Administrator, she guides USAID’s crisis response, including representing USAID on the Deputies Committee of the National Security Council, and oversees Agency efforts to promote food security, global health, democracy, and economic growth, and address the root causes of conflict.
Ambassador Coleman previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations for Management, Reform and Special Political Affairs. She was formerly a partner with McKinsey, the Chief Operating Officer of GiveDirectly, and spent more than a decade as a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, where she wrote about international affairs and global development issues for publications such as Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, and The Atlantic, and authored several books, including Paradise Beneath Her Feet: How Women are Transforming the Middle East. Her opinion pieces appeared in major publications such as The New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, and Financial Times. Coleman has served on numerous boards, including the National Outdoor Leadership School, the Association of Marshall Scholars and Trilantic.
She is a graduate of Princeton University and received her MPhil and DPhil degrees from Oxford University, which she attended on a Marshall Scholarship.
Chris Milligan joined USAID in 1990 as Presidential Management Fellow and retired in 2021 as the Counselor to the Agency. During his tenure, he directed institutional reforms that revamped State and USAID strategic processes while serving as the Senior Development Advisor for the first Quadrennial Diplomatic and Development Review (QDDR), and the first Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator in USAID’s Bureau of Policy, Planning, and Learning. He served as the Regional Director for the Near East in the Office of the Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance (F) in the State Department, and as the Acting Administrator for USAID's Bureau for Legislative and Public Affairs. He deployed to Haiti as the U.S. Response Coordinator overseeing $1 billion in U.S. relief efforts following the January 2010 earthquake. As USAID’s first Mission Director to Burma in 24 years, he integrated assistance with diplomatic efforts to advance Burma’s historic reforms. He has also been posted to overseas missions in Indonesia, Zimbabwe, and Ecuador, and served as Deputy Mission Director in Iraq and acting Mission Director in Madagascar.
He has a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service, a Master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and is a distinguished graduate of the National War College.
Location
Setting: Hybrid DACOR Bacon House OR Online 1801 F Street, NW Washington, DC 20006 UNITED STATES
