Lauren Baker

Lauren Baker

Senior Policy Analyst and Inclusive Development and Environment Advisor
Office of Policy
USAID

Dr. Lauren Baker is a Senior Policy Analyst and the Inclusive Development and Environment Advisor for the Office of Policy at the US Agency for International Development. Her work focuses on inclusion and equity, local ownership, social safeguards, and sustainability in international development policy and practice, with a long-standing focus on indigenous peoples’ issues and the nexus of human rights and the environment. Dr. Baker is an alumna of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, where she completed her Ph.D. in 2015 and Master of Environmental Management in 2005. Her research has focused on indigenous rights movements in the Peruvian Amazon in relation to oil exploration and extraction.