Kris Inman

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Professor of African Studies and Security Studies, Georgetown University Profile Articles Activity

Dr. Kris Inman's career is focused on conflict zones, primarily on the African Continent. In 2024 she led four main areas of policy and implementation impact for international development. First, she led the evaluation of USAID/Ukraine's Ukraine Responsive and Adaptive Politics that provided evidence-based policy and programming recommendations to further strengthen Ukraine's democracy and advance its European integration. Second, she led the invention of a recurring evaluative monitoring system for USAID/Somalia to improve timely evidence about progress toward USAID's strategic objective to prevent and counter violent extremism in Somalia. Third, she is a senior advisor for the team evaluating the U.S. Strategy to Prevent Conflict and Promote Stabilization, the U.S. strategy that implements the Global Fragility Act. This strategy is intended to change the way the U.S. government responds to violent extremism and violent conflict by shifting from response to prevention. Finally, she is the evaluation team lead for the U.S. government's African Democratic and Political Transitions (ADAPT) initiative that combines diplomatic and development responses in Guinea to support a democratic transition. The U.S. government intends to scale this pilot initiative, if it is successful.

Dr. Inman has a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Davis and is a faculty member in the African Studies and Security Studies Programs at Georgetown University. Previously, she served as the Senior Program Officer for Countering Violent Extremism at the U.S. Institute for Peace (USIP), where she led the implementation of USIP's Rehabilitation and Reintegration through Individual, Social, and Structural Engagement guide for rehabilitating and reintegrating people affiliated with violent extremism organizations. Prior to that, she served as the Senior Technical Advisor of Research, Evidence, and Influence at Catholic Relief Services, where she helped the organization advance its global 2030 Strategy and achieve its vision of transformational change in the areas of social cohesion and justice; building safe and dignified homes and communities; creating flourishing landscapes and livelihoods; malaria prevention; strengthening families for thriving children; and youth employment and leadership. She supported CRS's 2030 Strategy by developing its global capacity to ethically and sustainably scale international development and humanitarian responses.

From 2018-2020, Dr. Inman was the Chief of Party for USAID West Africa's Peace through Evaluation, Learning, and Adapting project based in Ghana, and has also served as the Senior Technical Advisor for USAID's Middle East Bureau's Countering Violent Extremism, MENA project based in Washington DC (2016-2018). Before moving to the development side of countering violent extremism, Dr. Inman spent 7 years working for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community as a counterterrorism and Africa researcher, including a deployment to Afghanistan as lead counter threat finance analyst in Kandahar (2012) and founding and directing the Africa Research Initiative at the National Intelligence University (2013-2016).

Trained as a political psychologist and methodologist, Dr. Inman has over 17 years of experience working on critical topics in Africa. She specializes in democratization, political economy and development, conflict resolution, and counter terrorism/countering violent extremism. In addition, she has more than 15 years of expertise directing research using both data science and mixed-methods and translating data analysis into actionable governmental policies and programming.

Experience

• –present Faculty, African Studies and Security Studies, Georgetown University

Education

• 2011 Georgetown University, Political Science

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