Anne Healy is the Deputy Chief Economist and Office Director of the independent Office of the Chief Economist (OCE) at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Anne has worked extensively in the public, social, and private sectors and across research, implementation, and funding roles on scaling evidence-based interventions in international development. Most recently, she served as the inaugural Director of Evidence to Scale at the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab (J-PAL) at MIT, where she founded and led J-PAL’s scale-focused unit focused on supporting the organization’s efforts to catalyze adoption at scale of rigorous evidence. Prior to J-PAL, Anne served as the Chief Innovation Officer at Evidence Action, where she led the organization’s incubator focused on prototyping, testing, and scaling promising, evidence-based innovations. Before that, when previously at USAID, she led Development Innovation Ventures, the Agency’s tiered, evidence-based innovation fund. She served as an advisor to the Deputy Secretary at the US State Department; advised companies, governments, and philanthropies as a management consultant at McKinsey & Company; and managed implementation of randomized controlled trials with Innovations for Poverty Action in rural Kenya. Anne has served on the boards of evidence- and data-driven organizations, including the Busara Center for Behavioral Economics and IDinsight. Anne holds an MPA in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School, a JD from Harvard Law School, and a BA from Princeton University. She is a career member of the Senior Executive Service.
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Deputy Chief Economist and Office Director
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