Ted Lawrence is USAID/Eastern and Southern Caribbean’s (ESC) General Development Office Director. He oversees USAID/ESC's Youth, Citizen Security, Climate Change, Disaster Relief, Education, and Governance programs covering Barbados, St. Kitts and Nevis, Dominica, Antigua and Barbuda, St. Lucia, St. Vincent and the Grenadines, and Grenada, Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana, and Suriname.

The USAID/ESC General Development Office's five-year, $120 million, portfolio supports four White House priorities: the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), Global Climate Change, Caribbean Energy Security Initiative, and Basic Education. It also includes marine biodiversity conservation, democratic strengthening in Guyana, and juvenile justice reform.

Mr. Lawrence also serves as the Mission Disaster Relief Officer (MDRO) with responsibility for the United States Government’s response to natural disasters in the region. 

Mr. Lawrence has worked for USAID for more than 13 years. Prior to joining USAID/ESC in 2014, he served in Ecuador, Afghanistan, Washington D.C., Morocco, and Ghana. Before joining USAID, Mr. Lawrence worked for various international development organizations, working in East Timor, Indonesia, Zimbabwe, Liberia, Angola, Haiti, Sierra Leone, India, and Kenya.