Christine Gottschalk is the Director of the Center for Resilience in the Bureau for Food Security at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). In this role, she oversees the Agency’s strategy and approach to building the resilience of vulnerable communities in areas subject to recurrent crisis. Ms. Gottschalk began her career with USAID in 2002, and in her tenure has supported emergency responses in Sudan, South Sudan, Syria, Afghanistan, Pakistan and Yemen as well as responses to food insecurity in the Horn of Africa and Ebola in West Africa. Her technical expertise includes humanitarian assistance and crisis response, post-conflict peace-building and reconstruction, and food security. Ms. Gottschalk also served as the Director for Humanitarian Assistance on the National Security Council (NSC) 2015-2016. She holds a master's degree in social work from the University of Michigan, and a bachelor's in anthropology from George Mason University.