WASHINGTON edit — Mark Green did not plan on leaving the U.S. Agency for International Development in the middle of a global health crisis — his decision to resign as USAID administrator was made well before COVID-19 was declared a pandemic, Green told Devex on Friday.
The outgoing USAID chief also did not expect to spend his final week in office working from home, holding remote meetings with his soon-to-be-former colleagues and finalizing the legal establishment of some of his reorganization plans from a distance.
“This is bittersweet, obviously,” Green said.