Jeff Brown is the Division Chief of USAID’s Development Innovation Ventures (DIV), a new initiative that is helping to identify, test, and scale development solutions that can drastically improve outcomes and at a lower cost. He is also an adjunct faculty member at Georgetown University. Before joining DIV at the beginning of 2011, Brown held positions at the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, and the Millennium Challenge Corporation, where his portfolio focused on evaluation and oversight of the development efforts of each of these institutions. He has also conducted domestic economic research at the Federal Reserve and at Dartmouth College. Brown has a MA in International Development from Harvard University, a MA in Economics from Brown University, and a BA in Economics from Colby College.