Released by the Office of Policy Planning
August 18, 2009
Letitia (Tish) Butler joined the Policy Planning Staff in June 2009. She is an expert in International Development, having retired from a career with USAID as a Senior Foreign Service officer, worked as a senior development consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton for four years, and taught a graduate level course in Development Management at Georgetown University. Immediately prior to her arrival in S/P, she co-led the internal presidential transition process at USAID. In her 27 years as a USAID development planner and program manager, she lived and worked in Latin America, the Middle East and Asia. She spent four years as the Development Advisor to the U.S. Executive Director of the Asian Development Bank, led the Guatemala Peace Program development, co-led the Afghanistan Task Force immediately following 9/11, and finished her career as the Director of Policy Planning in USAID’s PPC Bureau. At Booz Allen, she helped develop the firm’s civil-military capabilities for stabilization and reconstruction work. She was a Fellow in the 40th Senior Seminar of the State Department and received the Administrator’s Career Achievement Award upon her retirement. She has a BA from the University of Virginia.
