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Gerald Anderson

Secretary for Administration and Finance

Mr. Gerald C. Anderson is the Secretary for Administration and Finance of the Organization of American States.  He advises the Secretary General and  provides leadership and guidance to the Secretariat for Administration and Finance on administrative support activities, including budgetary and financial management, information technology services of the General Secretariat, program planning, evaluation, and operational follow-up, general services management (including buildings and security services), procurement and contracting of goods and services, as well as personnel management and training, in accordance with established principles of professional management.

Mr. Anderson completed a career with the United States Foreign Service in December 2010, his last appointment as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of International Organizations (IO) since June 2009.

Mr. Anderson served from July 2006 to June 2009 as Deputy Assistant Secretary in the Bureau of International Organization Affairs (IO) for Economic and Social Policy in the United Nations system and other multilateral organizations and for U.S. foreign policy in the technical and specialized agencies of the United Nations in August 2006.

Previously, Mr. Anderson served as Director of the Office of Peacekeeping, Sanctions & Counter-terrorism (IO/PSC) in the Bureau of International Organizations Affairs, where he was responsible for development and implementation of U.S. policy toward and funding of United Nations peacekeeping operations and sanctions regimes, including those relating to counter-terrorism.

Prior to becoming Office Director, Mr. Anderson served as Political Counselor to the U.S. Ambassador in Warsaw, Poland from 2000-2004 and promoted the development of Poland’s alliance with the U.S., bilaterally, within NATO and in coalitions of the willing in Afghanistan and Iraq. In the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv, Israel from 1997-2000, Mr. Anderson served as principal point of contact with the Israeli Knesset and government on peace process and political-military issues. Other assignments included Deputy Political Counselor, U.S. Embassy Warsaw, Political Officer in the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, Korea, Special Assistant to Secretary of State George Shultz, Operations and Line Officer in the Executive Secretariat, and rotational service in consular, political, and management roles in the U.S. Consulate General in Jerusalem.

Prior to joining the Foreign Service, Mr. Anderson served in the United States Peace Corps in Benin, West Africa, and in the International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce.
Mr. Anderson holds a Master of Arts degree from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, DC, (1980) and a Bachelor of Arts from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois (1976).

Mr. Anderson is married and has three children.