Bonnie Glick is a senior adviser (non-resident) with the Project on Prosperity and Development at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She was unanimously confirmed by the Senate to serve as the Deputy Administrator and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) from January 2019 to November 2020. Bonnie worked for 12 years as a Foreign Service Officer in the U.S. Department of State. She later worked for IBM as a global account executive, where she coauthored three patents as part of the IBM Research Division. In her role as Deputy Administrator and COO, Glick's portfolio covered all agency programs worldwide (100+ countries) and all agency operations. Among the issues she championed were digital transformation, the significance of 5G as a development priority in emerging markets, private sector engagement, democracy and governance, global vaccine distribution, the Abraham Accords, and food security.
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