Dennis Lauer brings more than 29 years of federal development, management and policy experience from the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC). In April of 2012, Mr. Lauer was selected as the Vice President of the Office of Administrative Services and Chief Information Officer, prior to this appointment Mr. Lauer served as CIO for OPIC. From 2007 to 2011, he served as the CIO and Chief Privacy Officer of the Millennium Challenge Corporation. As a member of MCCs senior management team, Mr. Lauer was responsible for establishing and managing the privacy program, IT strategic planning, IT security, IT policy, budget and corporate performance planning.

Prior to his service at the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC), Mr. Lauer spent twenty-five years at USAID, serving in a variety of development and management roles. Between 1991 and 2004 Mr. Lauer traveled extensively providing business and strategic consulting services in over forty-five countries.

While in the USAID Bureau for Africa, Mr. Lauer worked with foreign government ministries in Ethiopia, Kenya, Mozambique, and South Africa to develop business and information technology strategies and action plans. He developed information sharing systems for the famine in Ethiopia in the mid-1980s and the first multi-donor Management Information System for the Rwanda crisis in 1994. In May of 2003, Mr. Lauer led a joint infrastructure team of engineers from the USAID the U.S.STATE Department and the Army Corps of Engineers to develop and deploy an integrated Voice and Data network that continues to support the Greenzone and a number of remote reconstruction teams in Iraq.

Before leaving USAID in 2007, Mr. Lauer served as USAID Deputy Chief Information Officer, during this time Mr. Lauer was commissioned to create the USAID Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), consolidating management functions, including Knowledge and Program Management from other organizational units within USAID into a single Office of the CIO.