Paige Alexader

Paige Alexander is CEO of The Carter Center, founded by former US President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter to advance peace and health worldwide. Alexander joined the Center in 2020. In her first year, she led the organization through the COVID-19 pandemic and a period of national social upheaval, while envisioning a path forward for The Carter Center as it transitioned from a founder-led organization to one guided by its founders’ principles.

Under Alexander’s leadership, the Center has strengthened its core peace and health work and expanded into new areas, including global mental health, political polarization in the United States, and the impacts of climate change on peace and public health.

Before joining The Carter Center, Alexander had a distinguished global development career spanning more than two decades across the government and nonprofit sectors. She held Senate-confirmed senior leadership positions at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), covering missions and development programs in more than 25 countries, and served as Assistant Administrator for Europe and Eurasia and for the Middle East and North Africa.