Biography of Alonzo L. Fulgham
Chief Operating Officer
Alonzo L. Fulgham is the Chief Operating Officer and the Executive Secretary of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Appointed to the Office of the USAID Administrator on August 24, 2006, Fulgham has broad authority for ensuring the formation and implementation of USAID's policy and strategic planning agenda, and overseeing USAID's program and management reforms. He provides leadership on the full range of issues impacting the achievement of the Secretary of State's transformational diplomacy goals.
As the USAID Administrator's Representative, Fulgham also served as a Commissioner of the bipartisan, Congressional Commission for Helping to Enhance the Livelihood of People Around the Globe (also known as The HELP Commission). The Commission was charged with examining U.S. Foreign Assistance and proposing actionable recommendations to strengthen U.S. Development Assistance as one of three essential foreign policy tools, along with Defense and Diplomacy, in support of U.S. national security, human progress, global economic prosperity, and peaceful societies.
Fulgham is a member of the Senior Foreign Service. He served as Mission Director in Afghanistan from June 2005 to July 2006. Prior to that, he served as the Director for South Asian Affairs in the Bureau for Asia and the Near East (ANE). In 2003, he joined the ANE Bureau as Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for Asia and the Near East, Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin.
In September 2001, Fulgham served as acting USAID Deputy Director for Serbia and Montenegro. From March 1993 to February 1998, he served in Jordan - initially as Private Sector Officer and then as Director responsible for economic policy and poverty reduction. In March 1998, he was assigned to the Regional Mission for the Caucasus as Director for Economic Restructuring and Energy, responsible for Georgia and Azerbaijan. In June 2000, he was selected to study at the National Defense University (ICAF).
He is a member of the board of directors of the Society for Interna-tional Development (SID). He is the recipient of the Agency's Superior Achievement Award for his accomplishments as Chief Operating Officer and Executive Secretary, and numerous other performance awards, notably for his work in Afghanistan, and - more broadly - in Eastern Europe and South Asia.
Fulgham joined USAID in 1989 as Private Sector Advisor in Swaziland. In March 1992, he was selected as an International Develop-ment Intern (IDI). Fulgham has a Bachelor of Science from Fisk University and a Master of Arts from the National Defense University. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Haiti from 1984-1986 and speaks Creole and Spanish. He is married and has three children.
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