Lawrence Rubey was sworn as the USAID Mission Director for Peru on July 29, 2015. A career Foreign Service officer, he has spent the past 20 years designing and implementing development projects and managing large, multi-cultural teams in Zimbabwe, Bolivia, Malawi, El Salvador, and Colombia. From 2013-2015, he was Deputy Mission Director for USAID/Colombia. From 2011-2013, he served as Director of the Office of Regional Sustainable Development in USAID’s Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean, where he led a group of 25 USAID technical experts in trade, economic growth, agriculture, crime prevention, democracy and human rights, health, education, and the environment.

Dr. Rubey is the author of many policy papers, journal articles, and book chapters on topics like food security, improving the functioning of markets, and enhancing the effectiveness of development assistance. A development economist with more than 25 years of professional experience, he has also held faculty positions at both U.S. and overseas universities and worked in the non-profit sector. He has a B.A. in Economics from Northwestern University, an M.A. in Economics from Boston University, and a Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from Michigan State University.