Michael Metzler serves as the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Inclusive Growth, Partnerships, and Innovation (IPI).
Prior to his current role, he served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Administrator of the USAID Private Sector Engagement (PSE) Hub & the Center for Economic and Market Development (EMD). In addition, he served as the Executive Director of the PSE Hub in which he oversaw the Agency’s PSE Modernize Initiative, an enterprise-wide reform effort to modernize core Agency systems to accelerate and bring to scale USAID’s engagement with the private sector.
Prior to IPI, Mr. Metzler was the Director of USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA) in which he successfully led efforts that mobilized over $6 billion of new financing for development projects in over 80 countries. He was also a leading Agency voice on the development of the BUILD Act, which created the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC) and managed the successful merger of the DCA office and program into the DFC.
Prior to his DCA work, Mr. Metzler served as the Director of USAID's Economic Growth Office in Serbia, where he managed a diverse portfolio of projects focused on regulatory reform, local economic development, agriculture, enterprise competitiveness and economic security.
Mr. Metzler has also served as a special assistant and adviser to several USAID administrators on issues related to financial markets, macroeconomic policy and regulatory reform. Before joining USAID, he was the director of a national house-building program for Habitat for Humanity International and served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Nepal.
Mr. Metzler is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, where he studied development finance and economics.