Margaret Sullivan

Margaret Sullivan is CEO of Sullivan Strategy, an advisory firm focused on investment analysis and corporate growth strategies, and is also a fellow at University of California, Berkeley's Blum Center for Developing Economies. From 2011 to 2014, Sullivan served as Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff at the United States Agency for International Development and, previously, she served as Director of Political Risk Management at Farallon Capital Management, in San Francisco, California.

Sullivan began her federal career on Capitol Hill, where she served in a variety of positions including as a Staff Member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and as National Security Adviser to the House Majority Leader. In 1994, Sullivan joined the Clinton Administration and served as The Special Assistant to Defense Secretary William Perry, and as West Coast Regional Director and Chief of Staff for Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Andrew Cuomo. She has also served as Chief of Staff for the U.S. Trade Representative in the Executive Office of the President.

Sullivan helped found and served on the board of an Oakland-based community development bank, Beneficial State Bank and also serves on the boards of the Kennedy Center Memorial Task Force, the Partners' Forum for Private Capital in the International Development, and United States Global Development Lab. Sullivan has a Master's in Public Management from the University of Maryland, a B.A. in Political Science from Stanford University, and was a two-year MacArthur fellow.