Kristin Cooney serves as Chief Operating Officer at RestoringVision, where she oversees the organization’s day-to-day operations, ensuring efficiency and alignment with its mission. Kristin leads the implementation of key strategic initiatives, optimizes processes, and enhances organizational performance, ensuring compliance, risk management, and resource allocation to support sustainable growth and scaling impact.
Prior to joining RestoringVision, Kristin served as Head of Global Program Management at Corus International, where she also served as Associate Vice President of International Programs, leading a program portfolio ranging from $140M-$180M focused on health, agriculture, and livelihoods. A highly skilled and inspirational senior executive with 40 years of experience leading programs with international donors and non-governmental organizations from both headquarters and country settings, Kristin is passionate about achieving the technical and management excellence and quality expected of country, regional, and global teams. She directly managed U.S. government health programs in Asia, West Africa, Haiti, and Washington D.C., as well as served in leadership positions for several international non-governmental organizations.
Kristin has been recognized for her technical skills in delivering results and managing large consortiums across geographically and technically complex portfolios and building the capacity of local organizations. As Director of the West Africa Region for Management Sciences for Health, she led a $240 million portfolio of USAID, CDC, Global Fund, and World Bank-funded health projects, providing technical and operations oversight. Projects focused on capacity building and scaling up of advocacy, management, leadership, and governance across a range of technical areas (maternal and child health, HIV and AIDS, family planning, and nutrition)—including capacity building of local organizations to receive direct USAID and PEPFAR funding. Kristin served in Rwanda as the Project Director for IntraHealth, managing activities related to reproductive health and prevention of maternal to child health transmission of HIV, and in various positions–including faculty appointments and as Director of Breastfeeding and MCH–at Georgetown University’s Institute for Reproductive Health. She worked at the Academy for Educational Development on child survival and breastfeeding projects.
Kristin is a public speaker and published author, having written for technical journals and the lay press.
She holds a M.A. degree in International Relations from Georgetown University and a B.A. degree in Political Science and French from James Madison University.
