Anna Langer

Anna Langer is a Project Manager supporting DAI’s Governance and Economic Growth portfolio in Asia. She has over six years of professional-level experience in international development program implementation, government program management, and research. At DAI, she is the key home office operations and technical point of contact for a portfolio of USAID projects, and manages the Project Associates assigned to projects in her portfolio. She manages projects in the areas of project finance and budgeting, procurement, recruitment, staff training, technical direction and reporting, monitoring and evaluation (M&E), compliance with USAID regulations, and development of project policies and procedures. Utilizing a thorough understanding of field processes and systems, she provides targeted guidance and quality assurance from the DAI home office to ensure that projects in her portfolio comply with DAI and USAID policies and procedures, and have the operational systems they need to meet their technical objectives. She has extensive field experience gained through short-term field assignments, including most recently as the start-up systems manager for the USAID Cambodia Development Innovations project, for which she was responsible for the establishment of all project systems, including finance and procurement systems, as well as for local staff recruitment and training. She has also overseen local staff during other short-term assignments for DAI.

Ms. Langer has extensive project administration, research, and evaluation experience from positions held prior to joining DAI, including economic growth program design and implementation and program M&E. She worked for the Population Council in Cairo, Egypt, where she assisted with the planning stages of a comprehensive national youth survey of household indicators. As a graduate student at the University of Minnesota, she worked on a two-year academic research project and published study on child labor and education in Latin America. As a Program Administrator at the State of Minnesota, she designed and implemented M&E tools for program evaluation of State programs. She holds a Master of Public Policy from the University of Minnesota, with a focus on policy analysis and international economic development. She wrote her Master’s thesis on microfinance program participants in India. She also holds a B.A. in Economics from Carleton College.