Lauren works with TAI’s members to facilitate deeper partnership engagement around priority TAI sectors and programs. She provides research, analytical and operational support directly to and across TAI priority areas, and has significant previous experience consulting on governance issues in fragile states, with a particular focus on Haiti, the Horn of Africa, and south Asia. Lauren has worked in Washington and overseas with a range of development actors, including the World Bank, the UN Office of Project Services, and US Agency for International Development.

Lauren received her undergraduate degree from the George Washington University and earned a Masters degree in International Economics and International Development at Johns Hopkins SAIS. When Lauren is not being a governance wonk, she can be found cooking, training for triathlons, or playing the guitar with more earnestness than skill.