Berkley Center

Amanda Vigneaud is a seasoned development leader with expertise in strategic partnerships, organizational transformation, and religious engagement, and she is a member of the Strategic Religious Engagement Hub Advisory Board, an initiative hosted by the Georgetown University Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs. Vigneaud dedicated more than a decade of her career to the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), serving most recently as acting director of the Center for Faith-based Partnerships. There, she led a five-year process to develop and implement USAID’s first-ever Policy on Strategic Religious Engagement, a landmark effort carried out across two administrations. Her leadership brought together analysts, academics, and practitioners to institutionalize faith-based engagement as a core element of U.S. foreign policy, while advancing strategic partnerships and driving development progress worldwide. A founder of multiple nonprofits and small businesses, Vigneaud holds a bachelor’s degree from Wellesley College, a certificate in public policy from Harvard University’s Center for International Development, a Master of Scripture and Theology from the University of St. Andrews, and an MBA from Duke University.