Paige Alexander joined The Carter Center as chief executive officer in June 2020. Ms. Alexander has had a distinguished global development career, with over two decades of experience spanning the government and nonprofit sectors. She has held senior leadership positions at two regional bureaus of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Between 1993 and 2001, Ms. Alexander held several roles in USAID’s Bureau for Europe and the Newly Independent States Task Force, including deputy assistant administrator, chief of staff, director for the Democracy and Governance Office, deputy director of the Bosnia Task Force, and country desk officer.
After leaving for 10 years to work in a leadership role in the nonprofit sector, Ms. Alexander returned to USAID in 2011 in the Senate-confirmed position of assistant administrator for Europe and Eurasia; in 2015, she was again confirmed to lead the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Bureau, overseeing 1,000 employees, programs in 12 countries, and more than $1.4 billion in annual funding. From 2017 until her appointment to The Carter Center, she served as executive director of the European Cooperative for Rural Development (EUCORD) in Brussels and Amsterdam, working to bring market-led solutions to marginalized farmers in Africa to sustainably improve the livelihoods of families and communities. Ms. Alexander serves on the boards of the Romanian-American Foundation, Free Russia Foundation, the World Affairs Council of Atlanta, the ADL Southeast Region, and as a member of several human rights organizations. Follow Alexander on X at @P_AlexanderCEO.
Explore some of Ms. Alexander’s recent commentary:
- Opinion: Americans are fed up, candidates. Clean up your act — CNN, 9/22/22