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On January 20, 2021, President Joe Biden designated Spahn as acting director of the Peace Corps, [4] [5] and she served in this capacity until November 16, 2021, [6] and as CEO from November 2021 until November 2022. [6] [7] In April 2022, President Joe Biden nominated Spahn to serve as director of the
Olsen worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Tunisia from 1966 to 1968. [3] From 1979 to 1981, she served as the Country Director in Togo before becoming the Regional Director for North Africa, Near East, Asia, and Pacific (NANEAP) from 1981 to 1984. From 1984 until 1989, Olsen served as Vice President of Youth for Understanding, a national ...
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Ron Tschetter, 17th Director of The Peace Corps (India 1966–68) [36] Mark Schneider, 15th Director of the Peace Corps, senior vice president of International Crisis Group (El Salvador 1966–68) [37] Carol Bellamy, 13th Director of the Peace Corps, former head of UNESCO, president of World Learning (Guatemala 1963–65) [38]
The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order (10924) of President John F. Kennedy and authorized by Congress the following September by the Peace Corps Act.
He served in this capacity in a number of countries including Malaysia, Indonesia, Iraq, and India. [5] While posted in Malaysia, Miller took part in the investigation of an ambush in eastern Indonesia that saw two U.S. schoolteachers murdered. [6] [7] He was the Consul General of the United States to South Africa in Johannesburg from 2011 to ...
On June 14, 2007, the Peace Corps issued a press release announcing its strong disagreement with the decision of Michael Retzer, U.S. Ambassador to Tanzania, to withdraw the authorization for Peace Corps Country Director Christine Djondo to remain in Tanzania. [20] "The Peace Corps has always had full confidence in Ms. Djondo as country director.
He was made acting deputy director, and then, in July 1971, Director of the Peace Corps. [ 4 ] On January 4, 1972 Joseph H. Blatchford, director of Action, the agency that oversaw the Peace Corps, ordered a halt in signing up volunteers and instructed O'Donnell to prepare plans to terminate about 4,000 volunteers on duty in 55 countries. [ 5 ]