Stephen Lewarne is currently Senior Fiscal Economist for USAID’s DRG Bureau advising on economic growth and fiscal policy globally. He has managed some of the largest development programs in U.S. history over the last 30 years and raised some $3 billion in business over this time. He has started and run both large and small businesses in consulting and written extensively on applied economics and war-torn countries. He led the U.S. reconstruction of Kosovo, to the stabilization of Afghanistan and Iraq immediately after the U.S. invasion, to some of the largest economic growth programs in the developing world.  He has managed teams of several hundred, briefed senior U.S. and international government officials, and advised multilateral institutions from the IMF to the World Bank and U.N. on currency stability, macroeconomic stabilization, fiscal management, and trade policy. Prior to USAID, from 2010 to 2024 he was a Principal (Partner) at Deloitte Consulting. He is a specialist in Applied Economics of fiscal and monetary economics, anti-corruption, and trade policy. He was the lead economist for Deloitte’s International Development Organizations Account.

EDUCATION:
Ph.D., and M.A. in Economics, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 1992
M.A., and B.A. Russian Affairs, Carleton University, Canada 1986