Michael Metzler is the Director of USAID’s Development Credit Authority (DCA), a U.S. government credit guarantee program that unlocks private financing in support of USAID development priorities worldwide. To date, DCA guarantees have mobilized over $3.8 billion of new financing for development projects in over 72 countries.
Prior to his DCA work, Mr. Metzler served as the Director of USAID’s Economic Growth Office in Serbia, where he managed a $175 million portfolio of projects focused on regulatory reform, local economic development, agriculture, enterprise competitiveness and economic security.
Mr. Metzler has also served as a special assistant and adviser to several USAID administrators on issues related to financial markets, macroeconomic policy and regulatory reform. Before joining USAID, he was the director of a national house-building program for Habitat for Humanity International and served in the U.S. Peace Corps in Nepal.
Mr. Metzler is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, where he studied development finance and economics.
