Anna Nicol is a policy analyst at the State Department’s Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration (PRM), leading on relief and development coherence, cash programming, livelihoods, and multilateral development bank engagement. PRM is the humanitarian bureau of the State Department. PRM promotes U.S. interests by providing protection, easing suffering, and resolving the plight of persecuted and forcibly displaced people around the world by coordinating humanitarian policy and diplomacy, providing life-sustaining assistance, working with multilateral organizations to build global partnerships, and promoting best practices in humanitarian response.
Prior to joining PRM, Ms. Nicol led on PEPFAR’s engagement in several countries, including Kenya and Eswatini, at the State Department’s Office of the Global AIDS Coordinator. Ms. Nicol holds masters’ degrees in Public Administration and International Relations from the Maxwell School at Syracuse University and completed her undergraduate studies at Bowdoin College. She served in the Peace Corps in Benin, working on sustainable agricultural practices, and originally hails from New Hampshire.