Chloe Schwenke
President and Founder, Center for Values in International Development
Dr. Chloe Schwenke is the president and founder of the Center for Values in International Development. She is an international public policy advisor, development ethicist and practitioner, human rights scholar and activist, researcher, and educator. Her career has focused on LGBTQ+ issues, inclusive development, gender equality/equity, democracy strengthening, and on human rights. She recently completed serving as the Team Leader for an Inclusive Development Assessment in India – the first and largest such study ever undertaken for USAID anywhere.
Chloe’s career covers project experience in over 40 countries, including more than 15 years living and working in the Global South. Prior to her current role, she accepted a one-year grant at the International Center for Research on Women to direct their research on social inclusion, gender based violence, male engagement in women’s empowerment, and child marriage. Earlier, she served as vice president for global programs at Freedom House, following her time as a political appointee at USAID under the Obama Administration. In that capacity, she was USAID’s Senior Advisor on democracy, human rights, and governance in sub-Saharan Africa, and on LGBTQ+ issues globally. While at USAID she also served on the 7-person Policy Task Team for the new Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) Strategy, for which work she was formally commended by USAID.
Chloe received her Ph.D. in public policy at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she was Alumna of the Year for 2013. She earned her MA degree at Georgetown. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, and has previously taught as an adjunct at the McCourt School at Georgetown, at Johns Hopkins/SAIS, and at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has written two books, as well as chapters in nine edited volumes.
Chloe’s career covers project experience in over 40 countries, including more than 15 years living and working in the Global South. Prior to her current role, she accepted a one-year grant at the International Center for Research on Women to direct their research on social inclusion, gender based violence, male engagement in women’s empowerment, and child marriage. Earlier, she served as vice president for global programs at Freedom House, following her time as a political appointee at USAID under the Obama Administration. In that capacity, she was USAID’s Senior Advisor on democracy, human rights, and governance in sub-Saharan Africa, and on LGBTQ+ issues globally. While at USAID she also served on the 7-person Policy Task Team for the new Democracy, Human Rights, and Governance (DRG) Strategy, for which work she was formally commended by USAID.
Chloe received her Ph.D. in public policy at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she was Alumna of the Year for 2013. She earned her MA degree at Georgetown. She is currently an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland, and has previously taught as an adjunct at the McCourt School at Georgetown, at Johns Hopkins/SAIS, and at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. She has written two books, as well as chapters in nine edited volumes.