Keri M. Lowry

Keri Lowry is a nonresident senior fellow at the Adrienne Arsht National Security Resilience Initiative in the Atlantic Council’s Scowcroft Center for Strategy and Security, as well as a 2026 Presidential Leadership Scholar. She is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Peace Corps Association, the Society for International Development, and the Children’s Guild. She is also a member of the Chief of Staff Association.

She has over twenty years of experience in the public, private, and nonprofit sectors and most recently served as chief of staff at the Millennium Challenge Corporation. Prior to that role, she served as the associate director of national security and foreign policy at the consulting firm Guidehouse.

She has also served extensively across the US government, including as director of government affairs and external relations at the National Commission on Military, National and Public Service; deputy assistant secretary of state for educational and cultural exchanges at the US Department of State; regional director for Asia, Europe, and Middle East at the US Peace Corps; and director for international economics and humanitarian affairs at the US National Security Council. She also held numerous senior roles at the US Agency for International Development. She has managed international programs at nongovernmental organizations and was a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso.