Ann Van Dusen is currently a Visiting Associate Professor at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and Senior Associate at Arabella Philanthropic Investment Advisors. She has devoted her career to working on issues of economic and social development, humanitarian assistance and poverty alleviation both internationally and in the United States. During a 24-year career at the U.S. Agency for International Development, she served in a number of senior positions including in the Bureau for Global Programs, the Bureau for Policy and Program Coordination, and the Bureau for Asia and the Near East. At USAID, Dr. Van Dusen served as the senior career officer in the Bureaus of Policy and Program Coordination, Asia and the Near East, and Global Programs. She was a member of the Senior Executive Service for over ten years and received the Meritorious Presidential Rank Award in 2001. Among the signal achievements of her USAID career were the creation of a central bureau for global issues, technical assistance and research in the 1990s, and the strengthening and expansion of the central Office of Health in the 1980s in response to both child survival and early HIV/AIDS initiatives.

Ann subsequently served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Save the Children, where she oversaw both strategic planning and day-to-day operations and helped restructure the senior management team to respond to the demands of the rapidly growing organization. She served as interim Chief Executive Officer of EnterpriseWorks during a critical transition and merger with Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA). Since 2004 she has advised corporate and non-profit clients on strategic planning and program evaluation, worked with a number of charitable organizations in the Washington DC area, and served on the Boards of several non-profit organizations. She is the recipient of a number of senior government awards and has published on a variety of issues, most recently, on foreign aid reform. She has a PhD from Johns Hopkins in Sociology and Social Anthropology, an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and a BA with honors from Wellesley College.