Kaysie Brown was the former Global Policy Director and Strategist at the USGLC. She previously served in the Biden-Harris Administration as Senior Advisor in the Coordinator’s Office for COVID-19 Response and Health Security. She was also a member of the Biden-Harris transition review team of the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, served as Chief of Staff for the Sustainable Development Goals U.S. negotiating team, and worked on fragility and conflict response at the Bureau of Conflict and Stabilization Operations. From 2015-2021, Kaysie was Vice President for Policy & Strategic Initiatives at the United Nations Foundation. She has overseen projects and research at the Council on Foreign Relations, Center for Global Development, and the International Peace Institute. Originally from Kansas City, Missouri, Kaysie holds a master’s degree from the University of Oxford and a bachelor’s degree from Lewis & Clark College.
From conflict in the Middle East, to Russia’s ongoing war on Ukraine, to shifting geopolitical landscapes and historic humanitarian crises worldwide, 2023 underscored the critical need for American development and diplomacy to protect and build a safer, more prosperous world…