Julie Koenen has been Ukraine Mission Director since July 2024. Before assuming this position, she was Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator in USAID’s Conflict Prevention and Stabilization Bureau (CPS), Mission Director in Pakistan, Deputy Assistant Administrator in the Africa Bureau, Senior Development Advisor to the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, and served in other leadership roles in Iraq, Colombia, Nigeria, and Sierra Leone. She is a Senior Foreign Service Officer with a rank of Minister-Counselor.Prior to joining USAID, she was a senior project director for Management Systems International, an international development-oriented consulting firm specializing in governance, monitoring and evaluation, and development management. She is a native of California.
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Mission Director
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