Jonathan Metzger

Jonathan Metzger, Chief of Party of the USAID funded Global Broadband and Innovations Alliance (GBI), has been actively using information technology for development purposes for more than twenty years and has worked, run, or overseen projects in more than sixty countries. In his current role, Metzger oversees the solving of development challenges through the innovative use of Information and Communication Technologies. Prior to joining NetHope, Metzger served as Vice President of the Information Technology Applications Center at AED (which later became FHI 360). During his tenure, the Center grew over 300%, serving more than forty-seven countries and seventy-seven projects. From 2000-2006, he created a regional ICT for development program for USAID Asia and Near East Bureau and served as its Internet for Development Advisor. In that time period, twenty USAID Missions across the Middle East and Asia joined the regional Bureau’s start-up effort to utilize the Internet as a tool for education and socio-economic development. During this time, over $300 million was invested in using ICT development tools. From 1995-2000, he designed and implemented USAID Africa Bureau’s Leland Initiative which focused on introducing and capitalizing on the Internet in twenty-three sub-Saharan countries. Metzger started actively promoting the Internet across emerging market economies in 1989 when he was a founding member of the organization SatelLife with their worldwide HealthNet Program, the world’s first multiple low-earth orbiting satellite email service. Metzger graduated from Clark University in 1989 and received a CIBE from Columbia University Business School in 2012.