Adna Karamehic-Oates

Adna Karamehic-Oates joined the Open Government Partnership in April 2019.

Adna supports the cross-team efforts to mobilize coalitions, strengthen partnerships, and provide knowledge resources and technical support to OGP governments, civil society, and other stakeholders who leverage OGP to advance reforms in priority thematic sectors. Before joining OGP, Adna spent 11 years at the Open Society Foundations in Washington DC, in program management as well as advocacy roles focusing on the central/eastern Europe region as well as rule of law and transparency/accountability issues globally. After leaving Open Society and Washington, she continued working on the Millennium Challenge Corporation as an independent consultant and taught international affairs courses at Fontbonne University in St. Louis, Missouri. Adna holds a Ph.D. in Globalization and Governance from Virginia Tech University.