Gary Barrett
Associate Professor of Practice
Bio
Gary Barrett is currently the Senior Advisor at the USDA Forest Service National Partnership Office. Barrett was the former Deputy Director and Senior Advisor of the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Office of American Schools and Hospitals Abroad (ASHA), USAID’s only office dedicated to advancing U.S. public diplomacy objectives. Barrett served as both a Senior Program Advisor and Senior Field Program Manager for the USAID Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) in Afghanistan. While there, he helped to manage programs in both the south and southwest of the country.
Areas of Specialization
- Disaster recovery
- Environment politics
- Forestry
- Government
- Humanitarian assistance
- International development
- International food security
- International health
- International migration
- International organizations
- Leadership development
- Military operations
- Organizational design and leadership