Ms. Adams-Allen is the Deputy Administrator for Management and Resources. She was formerly the President and Chief Executive Officer of the Inter-American Foundation and, before her time at the IAF, served as Senior Director for global private-sector-partnerships initiatives at Winrock International, at the Organization of American States in several hemispheric development policy, programming, and leadership roles, at the law firm Coudert Brothers and the advocacy organization Caribbean-Central American Action, and at USAID as Deputy Assistant Administrator and Senior Advisor in the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean from 2010 to 2016.

Ms. Adams-Allen attended Brown University and Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. She holds a juris doctorate from Georgetown University Law Center.