Jason Alexander

Advisor

Jason Alexander is a retired USAID Foreign Service Officer with extensive experience in crisis response, stabilization, governance, and oversight in conflict-affected environments. From 2021 to 2025, he served as a Crisis, Stabilization, and Governance Officer, focusing on violent extremism, elections and democratic development, and gender-based violence. During this period, he also acted as the USAID Kenya and East Africa Mission’s civil-military relations lead.

From 2013 to 2021, Jason served with the USAID Office of Inspector General as a Foreign Service Officer, first as a Performance Auditor in Frankfurt, Germany, and later as a Management Officer in Bangkok, Thailand. His audit work frequently examined USAID stabilization and governance programs. In Bangkok, he established OIG’s regional headquarters and managed administrative operations across the Asia region.

Earlier in his career, Jason served as a Stabilization Officer with the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations (2011–2013), with assignments in Honduras supporting anti-gang violence initiatives alongside USAID/OTI and local NGOs, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo assisting with elections monitoring, and in Afghanistan as a Planning and Operations Officer for Regional Command–East. From 2010 to 2011, he worked as an Education and Training Manager in USAID’s Office of Afghanistan and Pakistan Affairs, following earlier service as a USAID Field Program Officer in eastern Afghanistan.

From 2007 to 2010, Jason completed two tours in Iraq, first with the Office of Provincial Affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad and later as a Governance Advisor to the U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team in Salah ad Din Province. Between deployments, he worked at the State Department’s Foreign Service Institute, preparing U.S. government personnel for service in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Prior to his federal civilian career, Jason worked as a firefighter in Texas, served as a U.S. Army National Guard counterintelligence agent, and was a U.S. Marine Corps infantryman. He holds a BA in International Affairs, an MA in Middle East Studies (Political Science), and an MPhil and PhD in Public Policy and Administration.