Addie Ryan Tadavarthy is a Senior Strategic Projects Manager with DAI’s Center for Digital Acceleration. A member of the Partnerships & Insights team, she supports the acquisition and management of digitally focused and strategic projects, providing design, research, and implementation support to project teams in the field and home office. During her ten-year tenure with DAI, she has also supported a diverse portfolio of donor-funded cybersecurity, governance and economic growth projects in Europe, Asia and sub-Saharan Africa, including four years in Jakarta as Program and Operations Manager for the regional ASEAN-U.S. Partnership for Good Governance, Equitable, and Sustainable Development and Security (PROGRESS) project. Addie earned a bachelor’s degree in international management and French from Gustavus Adolphus College in Minnesota and then launched her career in international development through a Fulbright Scholarship to examine the impact of microlending on women’s economic empowerment in Morocco. She is proficient in French and conversational in Indonesian, Moroccan Arabic, and Spanish.