Ann Mei Chang
USAID
Exec Dir US Global Dev Lab
Ann Mei Chang currently serves as the Executive Director of USAID’s Global Development Lab. Previously, she was the Chief Innovation Officer at Mercy Corps, building highly scalable social ventures and leveraging mobile/internet to improve the lives of the poor. She served as the Senior Advisor for Women and Technology in the Secretary's Office of Global Women's Issues at the U.S. Department of State. At State she developed partnerships, influenced policy, and became a public voice on bridging the gender gap in access to mobile phones and the Internet, leveraging technology in improving the lives of women and girls in developing countries, and increasing the representation of women in the technology sector. She conceived and launched the Alliance for Affordable Internet, a public-private partnership which aims to expand Internet access to the next billion through regulatory and policy reform.