Ann Vaughan is a former Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Bureau for Resilience, Environment and Food Security at USAID, helping to oversee Feed the Future, the US government’s global food security initiative. Ann helped create and lead the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE), a whole of government initiative to help 500 million people become more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Prior to joining USAID, Ann was the Director of advocacy at Mercy Corps where she advanced legislation on food security and global fragility, served as a field officer for USAID in Kandahar, Afghanistan and was an foreign aid Appropriations Associate for Chairwoman Nita Lowey. She started her international development career as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Quilali, Nicaragua. She has her Masters in International Development Studies with a focus on post-conflict reconstruction from George Washington University and Undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary.
