Biography of Gloria D. Steele
Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator, Global Health
Gloria D. Steele is the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Global Health, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
She assumed this position in January 2005 and is responsible for overseeing the operations and the financial and human resource management of the Bureau, which has a (direct and non-direct hire) staff of 240. Steele oversees the strategy, program development, and budgeting operations for the Bureau, which, in 2005, managed or co-managed $1.5 billion. She also has oversight responsibilities for the Bureau's family planning and reproductive health programs and its efforts in providing field support and training of public health officers.
Prior to this position, Steele served as Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia. Other USAID assignments include seven years of work in the Bureau for Africa as an Agricultural Economist, and seven years in the Bureau for Science and Technology overseeing applied research on key rural development issues such as land tenure, access to agricultural credit, food security, and natural resource management.
Steele also served for one year in the Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination, where she led the development of policies related to food security.
From 1974-1980, she served as a management consultant to the Philippines' Minister of Agriculture. She taught business economics at Letran Graduate School for Business in Manila, Philippines, in 1979.
She received a Master of Science in agricultural economics from Kansas State University, and a Bachelor of Arts in business administration from Maryknoll College in the Philippines.
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