Olivia Talbert (she/her/hers) is an operations and program management professional with experience supporting complex, multistakeholder development and humanitarian initiatives across the United States, Africa and Europe. She is passionate about strengthening operational systems and advancing inclusive, equitable development outcomes for vulnerable populations.
Ms. Talbert is a program operations associate at Results for Development (R4D), where she supports global health and development initiatives through operational planning, project management and system strengthening. She works with technical teams, partners and funders to ensure efficient, high-quality program delivery.
Throughout her career, Ms. Talbert has focused on advancing inclusive development and humanitarian initiatives that promote human rights and support marginalized and displaced populations. As a grants and partnerships officer with Second Tree in Greece, she secured UNHCR funding and helped launch a human rights education initiative empowering refugees with knowledge of their legal rights and protections. She has also conducted international research on colonial legacies, racial hierarchies and anti-Blackness in the Middle East and North Africa and South America, deepening her commitment to equitable and decolonized approaches in global development.
Before joining R4D, Ms. Talbert worked as a contractor with the U.S. Agency for International Development’s Southern Africa Mission, supporting regional coordination, reporting and stakeholder engagement for development and humanitarian assistance initiatives. She also served as a project assistant for USAID’s Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility Compliance and Capacity Support for Diverse Partnerships initiative, where she supported program start-up activities aimed at strengthening the capacity of diverse local partners. Prior to that, she worked with a nonprofit organization in Greece, providing humanitarian aid to refugees and leading a youth program focused on education, human rights, mental health and community-building activities for displaced children and adolescents.
Ms. Talbert holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations from Tufts University and brings expertise in project operations, grants management, humanitarian programming and stakeholder coordination. She is passionate about inclusive development and strengthening systems that support marginalized populations.
