Biography of Jacqueline E. Schafer
Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade
Jacqueline E. Schafer was sworn in on November 1, 2005, as Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Economic Growth, Agriculture and Trade (EGAT), U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Schafer was appointed by President George W. Bush to this Senate-confirmed position.
Previously, Schafer served as the Deputy Assistant Administrator for EGAT, where she supervised the offices of Agriculture, Environment and Science Policy, Natural Resources Management and Infrastructure and Engineering, since September 2002.
Prior to joining USAID, she served as Director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality in the cabinet of Governor Jane Dee Hull from 1999-2002.
Schafer previously served as Director of the California Department of Fish and Game, Chairwoman of the California Air Resources Board and in the Office of Governor Pete Wilson from 1993-1999.
Prior to that she was Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installations and Environment), appointed by President George H. W. Bush, and a Member of President Ronald Reagan's Council on Environmental Quality.
She also served in the Reagan Administration as Regional Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Region 2. From 1971-1982, she worked in the U.S. Senate as a Professional Staff Member with the Committee on Environment and Public Works for Senator Robert T. Stafford and earlier for Senator James L. Buckley.
She graduated from Middlebury College in Vermont with a Bachelor of Arts in Economics.
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