Randolph (Randy) Flay serves as the acting Director for the Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) in the Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization.
Randy joined the U.S. Agency for International Development as a Foreign Service Officer in 2007 and previously served as the Regional Program Office Director at the Middle East Regional Platform, where his team provided strategy, policy and budget, program performance and design, and external communications (2019-2023) management for Syria, Libya, Tunisia, Yemen, and Iraq. At USAID/Pakistan he served as Director for Stabilization and Governance, overseeing programs that supported Pakistan’s elections in the Federal Affiliated Tribal Areas, governance, and conflict prevention programming (2018-2019). As the Director of Strategy and Planning for USAID/West Bank and Gaza, he worked to advance Palestinian economic and institutional development and the foundations for a two-state solution (2016-2018). As Acting Deputy Mission Director and Supervisory Program Officer in Vietnam he led the development of a new USG country strategy to support the U.S.-Vietnam Comprehensive Partnership, expanding trade relations and addressing war legacies (2012-2016). He has also served as Program Development Office Director in Russia (2007-2011) and in Washington in the Bureau for Policy, Planning, and Learning, and in the Bureau for Europe and Eurasia. Prior to joining USAID, he worked as a Political-Economic Officer at the State Department (U.S. Embassy Vilnius) during Lithuania’s entry into NATO and the EU (2002-2006).
Randy is fluent in Lithuanian and Russian, a former Fulbright Fellow and holds an M.S. in Environmental Management from the University of California at Berkeley and a B.A. in International Relations from American University.