Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development

Administrator of the United States Agency for International Development
Seal of USAID
Flag of USAID
Incumbent Marco Rubio Acting   since February 3, 2025
United States Agency for International Development
Nominator	President of the United States
Inaugural holder	Fowler Hamilton
Formation	1961
Deputy	Michele Sumilas, Assistant to the Administrator For Management And Resources Isobel Coleman, Deputy Adminisator For Policy And Programming
Website	www.usaid.gov

The administrator of the United States Agency for International Development is the head of the United States federal government's Agency for International Development (USAID).

The administrator is officially nominated by the president of the United States and confirmed by the United States Senate. A 2017 reorganization of the US National Security Council placed the USAID administrator as a permanent member on the Deputies Committee. ^[1]

Marco Rubio was appointed acting administrator on February 3, 2025. ^[2]

List of administrators

No.	Image	Administrator	Tenure	Total days	President(s) served under
1		Fowler Hamilton [3]	September 30, 1961 – December 7, 1962	433	John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson
2		David E. Bell [3]	December 21, 1962 – July 31, 1966	1318	Lyndon B. Johnson
3		William Gaud [3]	August 3, 1966 – January 10, 1969	892	Lyndon B. Johnson
4		John A. Hannah [4]	April 2, 1969 – October 7, 1973	1650	Richard Nixon
5		Daniel Parker [4]	October 31, 1973 – January 19, 1977	1177	Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford
6		John J. Gilligan [4]	March 30, 1977 – March 31, 1979	732	Jimmy Carter
7		Douglas Bennet [4]	August 3, 1979 – January 20, 1981	537
8		M. Peter McPherson [4]	February 27, 1981 – August 7, 1987	2353	Ronald Reagan
9		M. Alan Woods [4]	December 1, 1987 – June 29, 1989	577	Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush
10		Ronald Roskens [4]	March 22, 1990 – December 1, 1992	986	George H. W. Bush
11		J. Brian Atwood [5]	May 10, 1993 – June 30, 1999	2243	Bill Clinton
12		J. Brady Anderson [5]	August 2, 1999 – January 20, 2001	528
13		Andrew Natsios	May 1, 2001 – January 14, 2006	1720	George W. Bush
14		Randall L. Tobias	March 31, 2006 – April 27, 2007	393
15		Henrietta H. Fore	November 14, 2007 – January 20, 2009	434
–		Alonzo Fulgham	January 20, 2009 – January 7, 2010 (acting)	353	Barack Obama
16		Rajiv Shah	January 7, 2010 – February 19, 2015	1870
–		Alfonso E. Lenhardt	February 19, 2015 – December 2, 2015 (acting)	287
17		Gayle Smith	December 2, 2015 – January 20, 2017	416
–		Wade Warren	January 20, 2017 – August 7, 2017 (acting)	200	Donald Trump
18		Mark Green	August 7, 2017 – April 10, 2020	978
–		John Barsa [6]	April 13, 2020 – November 6, 2020 (acting)	208
–		Gloria Steele [7]	January 20, 2021 – May 2, 2021 (acting)	103	Joe Biden
19		Samantha Power [8]	May 3, 2021 – January 20, 2025	1358
–		Jason Gray [9]	January 20, 2025 – February 3, 2025 (acting)	14	Donald Trump
–		Marco Rubio [10]	February 3, 2025 – present (acting)	37

References

1. Morris, Scott. "Maybe the Trump Administration Just Elevated Development Policy, or Maybe Not". Center for Global Development. Archived from the original on 2017-02-11. Retrieved 2017-02-08.
2. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/live-updates/trump-second-term-live-updates/?id=118389757&entryId=118403212
3. "Kennedy, Johnson and the early years". Devex. July 23, 2014. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
4. "The Cold War and its aftermath". Devex. July 23, 2014. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
5. "The clashes of the 1990s". Devex. July 23, 2014. Retrieved December 5, 2015.
6. "ON USAID LEADERSHIP". Archived from the original on 2020-11-07. Retrieved 2020-11-07.
7. "Gloria D. Steele - Chief Operating Officer". CARE. Retrieved 2023-07-04.
8. Biden names acting heads of development agencies
9. Mitchell, Billy (2025-01-20). "CIOs of USDA, USAID named agency leaders until Trump picks enter office". FedScoop. Retrieved 2025-02-02.
10. "Secretary Marco Rubio Appointed as Acting Administrator for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID)". US Department of State. Retrieved 2025-02-04.

External links

• USAID Leadership