A Distinguished fellow at the Georgetown University Institute for Women, Peace and Security.
First senior coordinator for Gender Equality and Women’s Empowerment and senior advisor to the USAID Administrator.

Carla Koppell recently served as a vice president with the United States Institute for Peace. Prior to that she served as chief strategy officer in the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) and was appointed USAID’s inaugural senior coordinator for gender equality and women’s empowerment. Koppel also directed the Institute for Inclusive Security, served as deputy assistant secretary for international affairs with the U.S. Department for Housing and Urban Development, and worked with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations and the Wilson International Center for Scholars.