
Kristin O'Planick
Market Systems Team Lead
USAID
About me
Kristin O'Planick is the Market Systems Team Lead in USAID's Bureau for Resilience, Environment, and Food Security where she seeks to advance market systems facilitation throughout the Feed the Future portfolio. She also manages the Feed the Future Market Systems and Partnerships Activity. With more than two decades of international development experience across all geographic regions, Kristin has worked in a variety of technical areas including market systems, enterprise and livelihoods development, workforce, food security, youth employment, entrepreneurship, agribusiness, rural finance, and sustainable tourism. She served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guinea. Kristin earned an MBA with distinction from the Johnson School at Cornell University.
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Plenary 1: Language matters! Talking meaningfully about systemic approaches
Tuesday, October 1, 2024 7:15 AM to 8:30 AM
Allamanda + Frangipani
Mike Albu · DCED Secretariat
Rory Tews · Independent Consultant
James Gichuhi · Gatsby Africa
Dhita Larasati · ILO
John Rachkara · Mercy Corps
Plenary 3B: Building bridges: the importance of donor-implementer relationships for systemic approaches to PSD
Thursday, October 3, 2024 9:00 AM to 10:15 AM
Allamanda + Frangipani
Mike Klassen · DCED Secretariat
Helen Bradbury · Mercy Corps
Anirban Bhowmik · Swisscontact
Elisabet Montgomery · Sida
Kristin O'Planick · USAID