Amanda is responsible for ensuring USP is rising to the challenge of its growing mission: to strengthen the global supply of quality medicines. Her passions for strategy, policy and business unite in a long-standing professional commitment to growing strengthening effective institutions, to better serve the public.
Amanda has spent most of her career in healthcare and benefited from the diverse perspectives that come from working across the world and from the vantage point of both regulators and industry. She has worked both in the US Government, at Health & Human Services/Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, and across the private sector, including more than a decade as a leader in McKinsey’s Healthcare Practice.
Amanda leads USP’s programs and business operations worldwide, including teams in its 6 regional offices (Basel, Singapore, Sao Paolo, Shanghai, Hyderabad, and Nairobi-opening 2026) and at more than 10 additional global locations who work to strengthen relationships with USP’s global stakeholders.
As a leader of Programs, Regional Operations and Strategy (PROpS), Amanda strengthens, builds, and implements marketing and sales strategies that drive revenue goals, enhance the relevance of USP standards and programs, and increase awareness at the national and global levels. She leads close collaborations with pharmacopeias and regulatory agencies in the areas of capacity building and advocacy for quality of medicines, foods and dietary supplements; and works with stakeholders to promote public health through public standards and scientific activities.
Amanda also oversees USP’s global strategy, insights, analytics, portfolio planning and pricing functions.
Amanda joined USP in 2017 as its VP of Strategy. From 2019-2025, in addition to her Strategy responsibilities, Amanda served as USP’s General Counsel and, between 2020-2025, Amanda was also responsible for USP’s Global People and Culture function. Amanda is Executive Sponsor of USP’s Global Women’s Affinity Group, UGWN.
Amanda is an enthusiastic cyclist and iron man finisher, who met her husband while cycling from Khartoum to Cape Town. They live in Washington, DC with their two children (who are also enthusiastic cyclists) and their dog and two cats (who are not).
Career Highlights:
- McKinsey & Company, Inc.: Associate Partner
- Department of Health and Human Services: Director, State Health Insurance Marketplaces
- Bridgewater Associates: Chief Operating Officer, Account Management
Education:
- Yale Law School, Juris Doctorate
- Williams College, Economics and Political Science double major, Harry S Truman Scholar, graduated summa cum laude
Awards, Recognition, Admissions:
- Bar Admissions: Washington DC
- Vice Board Chair, Latin American Montessori Bilingual (LAMB) School
- Board Member, Greater Washington
A Few Favorite Professional Achievements:
- Supported regulators and industry on four continents (Africa, Asia, Europe, North America) to advance health system reforms
- After passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), built and led a new government agency inside HHS (CCIIO/State Based Exchanges), overseeing the creation, award and administration of a $4+ billion government grant program to states
- Spearheaded the development of McKinsey’s portfolio of strategic tools for understanding and responding to the ACA
