Andrew Sweet

Biography

Andrew Sweet is Vice Pres, Innovation at The Rockefeller Foundation, directing the AI partnerships & strategy portfolio. He joined March 2020 to oversee a $40m effort to support the US pandemic response, unlocking billions of dollars in federal resources for testing and K-12 reopening in the US. He also led a $55m Global Vaccination Initiative to help country partners increase vaccine uptake in their countries.

Previously, he was Assoc. Partner at Dalberg, leading the J’oburg and then the SF office, focusing on strategy, health & energy. Prior to this, he was a presidential appointee at the US Agency for Intl Devt/USAID as Sr. Advisor to the Administrator, to help establish and implement food security & energy initiatives. Before USAID, he was at the Ctr for American Progress, co-authoring policy papers that formed the basis of Pres Obama’s devt agenda. He began his career as a Peace Corps volunteer in Togo. Degrees: MA Intl Relations, Syracuse Univ; BA Intl Relations, Michigan State