Usaid assistant administrator nancy lindborg biography

Nancy Lindborg, who has worked to improve conditions in distressed parts of the world for most of her career, has been president of the U.S. Institute of Peace since February 2015. Founded in 1984 and signed into law by President Ronald Reagan, the Institute of Peace is funded by Congress and works to prevent and resolve violent international conflicts, promote post-conflict stability and development, and increase conflict management capacity.

On January 9 and 10, 2017, the Institute held its third “Passing the Baton” conference, bringing together foreign policy and national security figures from the outgoing Obama administration and incoming Trump administrations.

However, President Donald Trump has called for the Institute’s funding to be eliminated.

Lindborg is from Minnesota and graduated from Edina East High School in 1976. She went west to Stanford where, through a coterminal degree program, she earned both a B.A.

and an M.A. in English literat