Linda Etim served as the Global Development lead for the Biden-Harris presidential transition team and as President Biden’s first White House Senior Director for Development, Global Health, and Humanitarian Response from 2020-2022. In those roles, she was charged with strategy development and coordinating the U.S. Government’s initiatives and responses related to global development, U.S. government humanitarian and atrocity response efforts. As an advocate leader with close to 20 years of experience in global development, conflict mitigation and crisis stabilization work both inside and outside of government, she passionately integrates her expertise in foreign policy and human rights in the fight for equal dignity and rights of all persons.
Previously, Linda was the Deputy Director and Senior Adviser for Policy and Advocacy at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Assistant Administrator for Africa for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and the National Security Council Director for African Affairs. Linda Etim is currently a Candidate for a Master of Divinity at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York focused on social justice and chaplaincy. Linda graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Arts and has a Diplome International from L’Institut D’Etudes-Politiques de Paris. She is committed to creating a world where individual freedoms and potential are realized.