Previously, she was Senior Anti-Corruption Advisor at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, DC from 2004-2010. She developed anti-corruption strategies, assessment methods and technical guides for the Agency, and conducted assessments and provided programme advice for teams in Cambodia, Ghana, Jordan, Malawi, Mongolia, Mozambique, the Philippines, Sao Tomé & Principe, Senegal, South Africa, and Tanzania. She also served as USAID’s principle advisor for anti-corruption programming in Afghanistan in 2009. She started her career at USAID in 1996, working on issues related to civil society, labour, and private sector participation in good governance and democratic development, and she was Senior Democracy and Governance Advisor for USAID/Nigeria from 1999-2003.
Hart holds a PhD in Politics from Princeton University, focusing on the politics of economic reform in Ghana. Since then, she has remained involved in teaching and training, serving as guest professor at American University for a course on Corruption in Development, and facilitating numerous seminars and workshops for development professionals, diplomats, and host-country partners. Hart’s current research interests include the state of anti-corruption policy and practice in development assistance, addressing corruption in post-conflict/fragile situations.
