Sarah Kozyn

Sarah Kozyn is an international agriculture and economic growth specialist with more than 12 years of experience designing, managing, monitoring, and evaluating donor-funded programs focused on agriculture and market systems development, resilience, nutrition, and trade. Her work at Abt has spanned projects in sub-Saharan Africa (Uganda, Ghana), the Middle East and North Africa (Egypt), and South and Southeast Asia (Bangladesh, Cambodia). 

Sarah Kozyn leads Abt Global’s agriculture market systems portfolio, providing technical guidance and thought leadership for design of market-oriented agriculture programs that seek to increase farmer incomes, improve the services and operations of agribusinesses, and strengthen agriculture innovation and business ecosystems. She guides Abt’s efforts to build this portfolio through cross-company collaboration on topics including climate resilience, private sector engagement, systems strengthening, and adaptive management.

Prior to her current role, Kozyn provided technical guidance on the Abt-led USAID-funded Uganda Integrated Community Agriculture and Nutrition Activity and the Feed the Future Egypt Rural Agribusiness Strengthening Project (2018-2022). She has led successful project design and stakeholder engagement activities in Cambodia, Bangladesh, and Egypt and contributed significantly to building Abt’s agriculture portfolio (2015-2018). Kozyn is a former Peace Corps Volunteer in Senegal and speaks French and Wolof.

Expertise

• International agriculture
• Nutrition
• Economic growth
• Trade
• Program design and management
• Monitoring and evaluation

Key Projects

• Uganda Integrated Community Agriculture and Nutrition Activity
• Feed the Future Egypt Rural Agribusiness Strengthening Project
• Feed the Future Bangladesh Nutrition Activity
• Feed the Future Cambodia Harvest II project
• West Africa Trade and Investment Hub
• AgResults