Beginning in March 2015, Sherry Carlin will serve as Mission Director for the Egypt Mission, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Carlin recently completed an assignment as Mission Mirector for the Sri Lanka and Maldives mission where she led a team of 40 employees. She managed all aspects of the diverse two-country program including disaster and humanitarian relief operations in response to devastating landslides and flooding in late 2014.

Carlin, a Senior Foreign Service Officer, has been an integral part of USAID’s relief and development efforts in the Caucasus, Middle East, Central Asia, South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe for the past 21 years. Carlin has directed programs in rural and institutional development, health, food aid, emergency relief, and, reconstruction and infrastructure, and has completed tours in Sri Lanka, West Bank and Gaza, Pakistan, Georgia, Armenia, Kazakhstan, and Washington, DC. Before joining USAID in 1994, Carlin worked as a coronary care nurse and completed a health policy fellowship in Tbilisi, Georgia where she served as Senior Health Policy Advisor to the Minister of Health.

A native of Daytona Beach, FL, Carlin holds a MS degree in national security strategy and certification as a national security professional from the National War College in Washington, DC, a MPH degree in health policy and a BS degree in nursing from Emory University in Atlanta. Carlin is an avid equestrian.