Meet Team Hive

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Megan Amer has over two decades of national security and foreign policy experience implementing complex, multifaceted capacity building and technical assistance programs for the U.S. Government, other foreign donors, and the private sector. At the U.S. Department of State, Ms. Amer managed multi-sector and interagency teams and budgets over $200 million a year in foreign assistance programming to reform criminal justice sectors in North Africa and the Middle East, strengthen law enforcement and rule-of-law institutions to combat international narcotics production and trafficking in South America, and combat terrorism in the Sahel. She also oversaw nonproliferation and border security programs for Africa, Eastern Europe, Ukraine, and Russia. During Ms. Amer’s last position at the Department of State, she led the Bureau of South and Central Asia’s long-term foreign assistance efforts.  

Since leaving the U.S. Department of State, Ms. Amer helped grow an international security sector reform nonprofit, the Strategic Capacity Group, serving as its Director of Development and Programs from 2016-2021. From 2020-2021, Ms. Amer served as a senior subject matter expert to draft, edit, and finalize a 100-page Guide for the U.S. Government on Conducting Criminal Justice Sector Assessments and from 2022-2023 served as the Executive Editor for the State Department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs’ forthcoming Project Guides on law enforcement internal affairs units, court case management systems, and basic police academy training. Ms. Amer also served as an adjunct professor on international affairs at Mercy and Manhattanville Colleges. 

Prior to the Department of State, she worked in the private sector as a Technical Training Manager for a leading international building automation firm, and consulted customers on state-of-the-art computer systems. 

She received an MA in International Affairs focusing on nonproliferation from the George Washington University and a BA in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.