Bonnie Glick is the inaugural director of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, a senior advisor at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, and a fellow in Harvard’s Institute of Politics. She formerly served as the deputy administrator and chief operating officer of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Prior to her appointment at USAID, Glick served as the deputy secretary of the Maryland State Department of Aging. She worked for twelve years with IBM, and served twelve years as a US diplomat in the Department of State. Glick holds a BA in government/international relations from Cornell University, an MA in international affairs from Columbia University, and an MBA from the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. She speaks Spanish, Portuguese, Hebrew, Amharic, French, and Russian and has co-authored three patents.