Paul Weisenfeld

Paul Weisenfeld currently serves as the Senior Deputy Assistant Administrator/LAC at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID). Previously, he was the Coordinator of USAID’s Haiti Task Team and reported directly to USAID Administrator Rajiv Shah. In this capacity, he was responsible for coordinating the Haiti recovery effort in Washington, following the devastating January 12, 2010 earthquake, as it supports recovery and reconstruction efforts in the field.

A Minister Counselor in the Senior Foreign Service, Weisenfeld has served for over eighteen years at USAID in four overseas posts and in Washington, D.C. From 2006 to January 2010, Weisenfeld served as USAID’s Mission Director in Peru. In this position, he oversaw programs addressing education, health, economic growth, environment, democracy, alternative development, regional trade capacity building, and development of the Peru-Ecuador border region. From 2002-2006, he served as Mission Director in Zimbabwe,
overseeing programs in the areas of HIV and AIDS, democracy and governance, small enterprise development and humanitarian assistance.

From 1999-2002, Weisenfeld served as legal office director for the USAID mission in Egypt. His extensive career with USAID includes serving as the regional legal advisor for the mission in South Africa from 1995-1999, and
legal advisor in the USAID Office of the General Counsel in Washington, D.C. from 1991-1995.

Weisenfeld worked in the private sector as an attorney with the law firms, Shaw, Pittman, Potts & Trowbridge from 1989-1991, and White & Case from 1987-1989. A New York City native, Weisenfeld earned his bachelor’s degree
from Queens College and his law degree from The Harvard Law School.