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.