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Leadership

USAID is headed by an Administrator and Deputy Administrator, both appointed by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The agency's Administrator is Raj Shah, the Deputy Administrator is Donald Steinberg, and USAID's Counselor is Hilda M. Arellano. The Chief of Staff is Margaret C. Sullivan. The Chief Economist is Steve Radelet.

Bureaus

In Washington, USAID's major organization units are called bureaus. Each bureau houses the staffs responsible for major subdivisions of the agency's activities.

USAID has both geographic bureaus (which are responsible for the overall activities in the countries where we have programs) and functional bureaus (that conduct agency programs that are world-wide in nature or that cross geographic boundaries.) The agency's geographic bureaus are:

• Sub-Saharan Africa (AFR) | Earl Gast, Assistant Administrator
• Asia (A) | Nisha Desai Biswal, Assistant Administrator
• Latin America & the Caribbean (LAC) | Mark Feierstein, Assistant Administrator
• Europe and Eurasia (E&E) | Paige Alexander, Assistant Administrator
• Middle East (ME) | Mara Rudman, Assistant Administrator

USAID's functional bureaus are:

• Global Health | Ariel Pablos-Méndez, Assistant Administrator
• Economic Growth, Education and Environment | Eric G. Postel, Assistant Administrator
• Democracy, Conflict, and Humanitarian Assistance | Nancy Lindborg , Assistant Administrator
• Bureau for Food Security (BFS) | Paul Weisenfeld, Assistant to the Administrator

In addition, certain major headquarters functions are also assigned to bureaus. Headquarters bureaus are:

• Management (M) | Angelique Crumbly, Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator
• Legislative and Public Affairs (LPA) | Barbara Larkin, Senior Advisor, Ann DeFabio Doyle, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Public Affairs, & Barbara Feinstein, Deputy Assistant Administrator
• Policy, Planning, and Learning (PPL) | Susan Reichle, Assistant to the Administrator

Independent Offices

• Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs (OAPA) | J Alex Thier, Assistant to the Administrator
• Office of the Executive Secretariat (ES) | Christa White, Acting
• Office of the Chief Operating Officer | Sean Carroll
• Office of Civil Rights and Diversity | Ambassador Barry L. Wells, Director
• Office of Faith-based and Community Initiatives | Mark Brinkmoeller, Director
• Office of the General Counsel (GC) | Lisa Gomer
• Office of Human Resources | Deborah Kennedy-Iraheta, Director
• Office of Small Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) | Mauricio Vera, Director
• Office of Security (SEC) | Randy Streufert , Director
• Office of Development Partners (ODP) | Karen Turner, Director

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