Office of Inspector General's Chief of Staff/Legislative Affairs
Dona Dinkler
Dona M. Dinkler is a member of the Senior Foreign Service and has served in numerous
positions worldwide with the U.S. Agency for International Development, Office of
Inspector General.
Ms. Dinkler joined USAID/OIG as a criminal investigator in 1985. She entered the
management ranks in 1992 and has served as an operational special agent in charge of
both domestic and overseas divisions, as well as Chief of the Investigative Support
Division in Washington, DC. In 2000, Ms. Dinkler was appointed as the Regional
Inspector in Budapest, Hungary, the first woman in OIG to serve in such a position.
In 2006, she became OIG's Chief of Staff and head of Legislative Affairs.
Prior to joining USAID, Ms. Dinkler was the chief investigator for the Arizona
Corporation Commission's Securities Division in Phoenix, Arizona. She started her
law enforcement career in 1974 with the Sedgwick County District Attorney's Office,
Consumer Protection Division, in Wichita, Kansas.
Ms. Dinkler holds a BS in criminal justice and sociology from Wichita State
University and is a graduate of the Federal Executive Institute in
Charlottesville, Virginia.
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