Lona Stoll

Chief Operating Officer and Innovation Counsel

Lona is the Chief Operations Officer and Innovation Counsel at Conservation X Labs, where she advises across the organization's innovation programs and oversees Impact, Communications and Marketing, Finance, Development, Human Resources, IT, and Partnerships.

Prior to joining CXL, she served as Chief Innovation Officer / Vice President of Impact and Innovation at CARE, an international NGO implementing over $900 million in programs in over 100 countries. In that role, led CARE's strategy to scale the world's most impactful solutions, and provided technical direction for digital, innovation, economic inclusion, social business, impact investing, and data, evaluation, and accountability practice areas.

Before her tenure CARE, Lona worked as a consultant to The Rockefeller Foundation on U.S. food security, and held senior leadership positions across the United States Government, including serving as Deputy Vice President at the Millennium Challenge Corporation; acting Executive Director of the U.S. Global Development Lab at USAID; acting Deputy Coordinator for Development for Feed the Future at USAID; Senior Adviser to the Secretary of Agriculture; and Chief of Staff for the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service. She also served as a foreign affairs officer at the U.S. Department of State, serving overseas in Pristina, Kosovo and Kandahar, Afghanistan, worked in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, and served on the U.S. Central Command’s Assessment Team. In addition to her federal government service, Lona was a research associate at the National Defense University, worked for the New York City Department of Education’s Office of the Auditor General, and served as a congressional fellow for Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy. Lona holds a bachelor’s degree in economics and political science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, and a master’s degree in international affairs from Columbia University.