Gayle E. Smith

Gayle E. Smith     (bureaucrat, spook?)
Alma mater	University of Colorado Boulder
Member of	Center for a New American Security, Council on Foreign Relations/Members 3, Lolita Express/Passengers
USAID leader  Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development In office 2 December 2015 - 20 January 2017 Succeeded by Mark Andrew Green

Gayle E. Smith was Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development, an organization with deep ties to the intelligence services, until 2017. There she worked to "strengthen democratic institutions", which in intelligence parlance normally means the opposite. Later she became leader of the ONE Campaign.

Smith was previously the special assistant to the President of the United States and Senior Director for Development and Democracy (i.e. for regime changes) at the U.S. National Security Council

Career

Before her work on the NSC Smith founded the sustainable security program at the think tank Center for American Progress, and co-founded the ENOUGH project and the Modernizing Foreign Assistance Network. She also worked as a journalist and with NGOs in Africa for more than 20 years, where she covered military, economic, and political affairs for the BBC, Associated Press, Reuters, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Toronto Globe & Mail, London Observer, and Financial Times.

On April 30, 2015, President Obama announced his nomination of Smith to be the new administrator for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), to succeed Dr. Rajiv Shah, who resigned the post in February 2015. There was some opposition to her appointment. The Senate delayed confirmation. Smith was later confirmed on November 30, 2015.

Smith joined the ONE Campaign on March 28, 2017 succeeding Michael J. Elliot.

Other affiliations

Smith is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on the boards of Oxfam America, the Africa America Institute, ASSET, USA for Africa, and the National Security Network. She has also consulted for a range of NGOs, foundations, and governmental organizations including UNICEF, the World Bank, Dutch Interchurch Aid, Norwegian Church Relief, and the Canadian Council for International Cooperation.

She also served on the policy and advisory boards of DATA, the Acumen Fund, and the Global Fairness Initiative, and was the Working Group Chair on Global Poverty for the Clinton Global Initiative from 2005 to 2007.

 

Events Participated in

Event	Start	End	Location(s)	Description
Munich Security Conference/2023	17 February 2023	19 February 2023	Germany Munich Bavaria	Annual conference of mid-level functionaries from the military-industrial complex - politicians, propagandists and lobbyists. The real decisions are made by deep politicians behind the scenes, elsewhere.
WEF/Annual Meeting/2016	20 January 2016	23 January 2016	World Economic Forum Switzerland	Attended by over 2500 people, both leaders and followers, who were explained how the Fourth Industrial Revolution would changed everything, including being a "revolution of values".
WEF/Annual Meeting/2019	22 January 2019	25 January 2019	World Economic Forum Switzerland	"The reality is that we are in a Cold War [against China] that threatens to turn into a hot one."

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