The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Global Development Lab has some high-level champions, among them former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and the lab is considered a key legacy achievement for USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah.
Now the U.S. government’s development solutions incubator has an executive director.
Ann Mei Chang — who previously served as chief innovation officer at Mercy Corps, senior adviser for women and technology at the U.S. Department of State and senior engineering director at Google — will lead the lab, sometimes described as the U.S. aid enterprise’s version of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, beginning Dec. 15.
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Michael Igoe@AlterIgoe
Michael Igoe is a Senior Reporter with Devex, based in Washington, D.C. He covers U.S. foreign aid, global health, climate change, and development finance. Prior to joining Devex, Michael researched water management and climate change adaptation in post-Soviet Central Asia, where he also wrote for EurasiaNet. Michael earned his bachelor's degree from Bowdoin College, where he majored in Russian, and his master’s degree from the University of Montana, where he studied international conservation and development.
