Biography of Carol Peasley
Counselor
Carol Peasley is Counselor for the Office of the Administrator at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). As Counselor, Peasley is the senior most foreign service officer at the Agency, advising the Administrator on all foreign service related matters.
Peasley has extensive experience with international affairs and economic development. In her 34 years with the Agency, she has held various staff and senior management positions in the bureaus for Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean, Asia and the Near East, and Europe and Euroasia.
She was mission director in Russia (1999-2003) and Malawi (1988-1993), and deputy in Thailand (1982-1984). Peasley was also acting Assistant Administrator for the Bureau for Africa from July 1996 to July 1998, while serving as the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Africa Bureau from January 1994 to January 1999.
She began her career as a research economist with the Export-Import Bank in 1969, and joined USAID as an International Development Intern/Program Economist in 1970.
Peasley has a bachelor's degree from the University of California at Santa Barbara, a master's from England's Sussex University, and a second master's from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.
She lives in Washington, D.C.
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