Bonnie Glick

Senior Adviser (Non-Resident), Project on Prosperity and Development
Bonnie Glick

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. Bonnie served as the deputy secretary of the Maryland Department of Aging from 2017 to 2019 under Governor Larry Hogan. 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. She was the executive sponsor of USAID’s COVID-19 Task Force, which addressed both the safety and security of the global workforce and the international response to the outbreak. Bonnie is the inaugural director of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue and currently serves on the institute's advisory board.

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Digital & Technology: Rebuilding Digital Infrastructure

The larger economic implications of the destruction or occupation of Ukrainian telecommunication stations are that each of these stations will have to be repaired, which will bring up the cost of Ukrainian reconstruction.

Event — September 22, 2023

A Year into the Pandemic: The State of International Development

Bonnie Glick, senior adviser (non-resident), testifies before the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on International Development, International Organizations, and Global Corporate Social Impact on "A Year into the Pandemic: The State of International Development."

Congressional Testimony by Bonnie Glick — March 10, 2021

Memo to Incoming USAID Leadership in the Biden Administration

A new memo from CSIS Senior Adviser Bonnie Glick to the USAID leadership of the incoming Biden administration outlines several operational requirements for addressing the Covid-19 pandemic, great power competition, and other global challenges in its first 100 days.

Commentary by Bonnie Glick — November 30, 2020

Online Event: USAID Digital Strategy Launch

Please join us for a virtual Fireside Chat with Daniel Runde, CSIS Senior Vice President and USAID’s Deputy Administrator Bonnie Glick to launch USAID’s first-ever Digital Strategy. 

Event — April 15, 2020