Alonzo L. Fulgham
Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Agency for International Development

Alonzo L. Fulgham is the Chief Operating Officer at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).

He was appointed by Ambassador Randall L. Tobias, Director for U.S. Foreign Assistance and USAID Administrator, on August 24, 2006.  A senior executive in the Office of the Administrator, Fulgham has broad authority for overseeing Agency reforms.  He provides leadership and direction on a wide range of operational and policy issues impacting the achievement of the Secretary of State’s transformational diplomacy goals. 

Fulgham is a member of the Senior Foreign Service.   Most recently, he served as Mission Director in Afghanistan from June 2005 to July 2006.  Prior to that, he served as the Director for South Asian Affairs in the Bureau for Asia and the Near East (ANE).  He joined the ANE Bureau in 2003 as Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator, Ambassador Wendy Chamberlin.

In September 2001, Fulgham served as acting USAID Deputy Director for Serbia and Montenegro.  From March 1993 to February 1998, he served in Jordan – initially as Private Sector Officer and then as Director responsible for economic policy and poverty reduction.  In March 1998, he was assigned to the Regional Mission for the Caucasus as Director for Economic Restructuring and Energy, responsible for Georgia and Azerbaijan.  In June 2000, he was selected to study at the National De-fense University (ICAF).

Fulgham joined USAID in 1989 as Private Sector Advisor in Swaziland.  In March 1992, he was selected as an International Development Intern (IDI). 

Fulgham has a Bachelor of Science from Fisk University and a Master of Arts from the National Defense University. He was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Haiti from 1984-1986 and speaks Creole and Spanish.  He is married and has three children.