Aaron S. Williams

Aaron S. Williams is a director of the Institute for Sustainable Communities.

"Aaron Williams is the vice president for International Business Development in RTI’s Center for International Development. He has more than 25 years of experience in policy formulation, strategic planning, and the design and implementation of development assistance programs. Mr. Williams has directed a broad range of development assistance programs in the areas of economic policy development and economic growth, trade and investment promotion, banking and finance, democracy and governance, education, housing and urban development, and public health. He has extensive experience in the strategic design and management of assistance programs, including long-term assignments in South Africa, Honduras, Haiti, Costa Rica, Barbados, and the Eastern Caribbean islands region. In his role as a senior USAID manager, Mr. Williams provided policy and program leadership to major government organizational units, both in headquarters and field assignments. He has led project design teams in several countries, working in Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and Asia. He has created and managed innovative public-private partnerships between global corporations, government entities (USG and host country), nongovernmental organizations (NGOs), and international foundations. Mr. Williams has an MBA in Marketing and International Business from the University of Wisconsin, and a B.S. in Geography/Education from Chicago State University."


 * Director, Pan American Development Foundation
 * Advisory Council, U.S. Center for Citizen Diplomacy