Kris Inman

Technical Director for Strategy, Performance, and Learning at Social Impact

Fragile States Working Group Co-Chair

Dr. Kris L. Inman is a senior leader and subject matter expert in democracy, governance, conflict stabilization, and violent extremism prevention and disengagement in fragile states. With over 15 years of experience advancing peace and justice in complex environments, she specializes in evidence-based strategy, systems change, scaling, and sustainability.

Dr. Inman currently serves as Technical Director for Strategy, Performance, and Learning at Social Impact, where she leads conflict and democracy-related work and provides strategic guidance on peace, stabilization, and democracy interventions for international development and U.S. government clients. Previously, she held leadership roles at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Catholic Relief Services, and USAID-funded initiatives, where she designed and managed large-scale research, policy, and implementation programs in Africa, the Middle East, and beyond.

A recognized thought leader, Dr. Inman has briefed policymakers at the U.S. Congress, State Department, Department of Defense, and the Defeat ISIS Coalition, and has served as an advisor to USAID on fragile states and counterterrorism strategies. She has led evaluations of multi-million complex programming, including the world’s largest democracy program in Ukraine, and oversaw USAID’s terrorism risk and resilience assessment in West Africa, which informed US strategy and programing design in the region.

Dr. Inman has been a member of the global scaling community since 2020, previously serving on the Executive Committee’s Resource Mobilization sub-Committee and representing Catholic Relief Services on the EXCOM. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Davis, and has held faculty appointments at Georgetown University, Johns Hopkins SAIS, and the University of Southern California, where she teaches on conflict, security, and politics in Africa.