Kerri DiZoglio serves as the Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator in USAID’s Bureau for Planning, Learning and Resource Management (PLR) where she oversees the Office of Strategic and Program Planning and the Office of Policy Implementation and Analytics. She also coordinates the Bureau’s work on key priorities, including advancing locally led development.
Ms. DiZoglio has served in leadership roles in PLR and the former Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) for the past ten years, including most recently as the Director of the PLR and PPL Program Offices and previously as PPL Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator and Deputy Director of the Office of Strategic and Program Planning. A people-centered leader, Ms. DiZoglio has worked at the forefront of Agency change initiatives to improve organizational health and resilience, including leading an Agency-wide working group that successfully advocated for the establishment of USAID Staff Care Center in 2012.
Prior to joining USAID in 2008, Ms. DiZoglio worked at the Department of State in the Bureau for Economic and Business Affairs, the Bureau for Western Hemisphere Affairs, and the Office of the Director of Foreign Assistance. In 2005, she worked as a Brookings Institution Legislative Fellow in the U.S. Senate.
Ms. DiZoglio received her bachelor’s degree in Economics from Brandeis University and Master’s degree in International Studies from the University of Miami. She is originally from Massachusetts.