Zachary Baquet serves as Senior Knowledge Management (KM) Adviser with USAID’s Bureau for Resilience & Food Security (RFS) where he leads efforts on improving the learning enabling environment within the bureau and beyond. Joining USAID in 2008 as an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science & Technology Policy Fellow, he served in USAID’s former Office of Agriculture (2008-2010). In the Office of Agriculture, he worked on food security, the integration of climate change and natural resources management into agriculture programming, and knowledge management issues. Working in the Bureau for Food Security from 2010 to 2020, he oversaw a team that provided support to the bureau around knowledge management, training, open data, and learning agendas. Baquet has an undergraduate degree in Physics and Astronomy, Ph.D. in molecular biology, and did post-doctoral work on neurodegenerative disorders.
Zachary Baquet
Senior Knowledge Management Adviser, Bureau for Resilience & Food Security
USAID