Amy Kirschenbaum Swers currently serves as Senior Climate Infrastructure Advisor for the U.S. Agency for International Development. She also co-leads the Infrastructure Working Group for the President’s Emergency Plan for Adaptation and Resilience (PREPARE) and serves on USAID’s Coalition for Disaster Resilience Infrastructure (CDRI) Advisory Council. Previously, she has held leadership roles at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, the Inter-American Foundation, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, as well as in the private sector working for Fortune 500 biotech and telecommunications companies.  As a consultant, she has also provided strategic advisory services to The Rockefeller Foundation, the U.S. Department of State, and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. In these roles, Amy has served as a bridge and translator – whether between sectors, business units, or countries.  

Amy earned dual Master’s degrees from the University of Texas-Austin in public policy and Latin American studies and a B.A. from Yale University. Fluent in Spanish and Portuguese, Amy has lived in six Latin American and European countries, and received a Fulbright fellowship to carry out graduate fieldwork in Brazil and the Southern Cone.