Branden Ryan

Branden A. Ryan is a gender equality and inclusive development subject-matter expert with over a decade of experience in project management and implementation, training, and business development for donor-funded programs including USAID, FCDO, MCC, and private foundations. Branden specializes in inclusive economic growth, youth engagement and workforce development, and resilience-related inclusive development programming with focuses on the agriculture and food security, energy, WASH, environment and natural resources, and climate change sectors.
Branden currently serves as a Gender Equality and Social Inclusion Advisor with Chemonics International where he ensures that projects and proposals mainstream and integrate gender equality and social inclusion principles and conducts technical outreach, communications, and research activities. Branden regularly provides technical support to project teams on gender mainstreaming and inclusive development activities, from serving as lead author of activity GESI analyses to designing and facilitating tailored sectoral capacity building trainings for stakeholders. He leads Chemonics’ LGBTQI+ Inclusive Development and Inclusive Economic Growth Technical Working Groups. 
Prior to joining Chemonics, he worked with Crown Agents USA on full proposal recruitment, project management, and GESI integration activities. Branden is also a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer from Tanzania, and during his time coordinating the post’s gender equality portfolio, he developed and facilitated training on student-centered secondary education, small-scale agriculture and animal husbandry, gender equality, sexual and reproductive health, women’s health and menstrual hygiene management, and arts-based empowerment. Branden served as one of Peace Corps Tanzania’s representatives for the interagency DREAMS coordination group to design and implement PEPFAR-funded interventions focused on adolescent girls and young women.
Branden has an M.A. in security policy studies with a focus in peace and conflict resolution (gender/East Africa) from George Washington University and a B.A. in international affairs and Spanish from Mercer University. He speaks fluent Kiswahili and is proficient in Spanish. In his free time, Branden loves to cook and is an avid tennis fan. You can connect with Branden for a 1:1 coffee chat here.