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Jeremy Konyndyk

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Jeremy Konyndyk is president of Refugees International, a Washington-based humanitarian advocacy group. From 2013 to 2017 he directed USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, leading the U.S. government's response to international disasters including the 2014 Ebola outbreak in West Africa. In the Biden administration he was USAID's lead official for COVID-19 and later for the global mpox response.

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We have documented 1 statement by Jeremy Konyndyk, in 1 case. Each statement below gives the quotation, its original source and a link to the full case.

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Statements by Jeremy Konyndyk

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Jeremy Konyndyk

Role at the time: Former director of USAID's Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance, in comments to ProPublica

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XpresTest won its CDC Ebola entry screening contract and its State Department outbreak response award through competitive bidding.

“I have to wonder why the hell they're not going with someone who has actually done this before.”
Open source (opens in a new tab)ProPublica report on XpresTest's nearly $40 million in federal Ebola screening awards and its parent company's ties to Trump's sons · ProPublicaFull article
Why we used this label

The reference point is the award of nearly $40 million in federal Ebola screening and outbreak response funding to XpresTest months after a fund tied to Donald Trump Jr. and Eric Trump invested in its parent company, XWELL. Konyndyk calls it concerning that the government gave such a contract to a company with no experience in Africa and questions why experienced groups were passed over, which condemns the awards.

Read statementFull case: XpresTest won nearly $40 million in Ebola screening awards months after a fund tied to Trump's sons invested in its parent; the sons say they had no role

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