Ideas to Action:

Independent research for global prosperity

Kate Almquist Knopf

Visiting Policy Fellow

Education:

MA and BA Johns Hopkins University

Kate Almquist Knopf is a visiting policy fellow at the Center for Global Development. She also serves as adjunct faculty with the Africa Center for Strategic Studies at the National Defense University in Washington, DC. At CGD, she works on issues such as the intersection of security and development in the developing world, US foreign assistance reform, and development interventions in fragile and newly emerging states such as South Sudan.

Previously, Knopf served in various capacities at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), including as assistant administrator for Africa (2007-2009), Sudan mission director (2006-2007), deputy assistant administrator for Africa (2004-2006), and special assistant and senior policy advisor to the administrator (2001-2004). Prior to this, Knopf served as chief of staff for the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority and for the Executive Office for Administration and Finance of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. She also worked for the international nongovernmental organization World Vision in Washington, D.C., and Geneva, Switzerland.