United States President Joe Biden has announced the nomination of Zambian-American Dr. Monde Muyangwa for the position of Assistant Administrator for the Africa Bureau at USAID – U.S. Agency for International Development.
Dr. Muyangwa currently serves as the Director of the Africa Program at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, which she has held since 2014.
In this capacity, she leads the Center’s programs on African democracy and governance; conflict management and peacebuilding; trade, investment, and sustainable development; and Africa’s evolving role in the global arena.
Dr. Muyangwa has over 23 years of senior-level experience on Africa and U.S-Africa relations.
Before joining the Wilson Center, Dr. Muyangwa served as Academic Dean at the Africa Center for Strategic Studies (ACSS) at the National Defense University from 2002 to 2013 where she led and managed the Center’s programs on security studies, counter-terrorism and transnational threats, civil-military relations, defense economics, and conflict management.
From 1997 to 2000, she worked as Director of Research and then Vice President for Research and Policy at the National Summit on Africa. She led a policy-oriented nationwide dialogue on Africa that culminated in a National Policy Plan of Action US-Africa Relations.
A widely-cited authority on governance, security, and development issues, Dr. Muyangwa, challenges dominant narratives about the continent.
She holds a Ph.D. in International Relations and a B.A. in Politics, Philosophy, and Economics from the University of Oxford (England) and a B.A. in Public Administration and Economics from the University of Zambia.
"Very happy to see @POTUS nominate Dr. Monde Muyangwa to lead @USAIDAfrica. Monde is an experienced leader, insightful voice on US-Africa relations, and widely-respected expert on the development & governance challenges @USAID and partners are working to address on the continent."
