Greg Gisvold

Greg is a Senior Fellow at the Rule of Law Collaborative at the University of South Carolina. Leveraging expertise in rule of law and organizational learning and development, Greg previously led the Justice Training, Research, and Collaboration project for the Department of State. From 2000 to 2017, he served as a chief of party and technical manager on multiple USAID projects, co-creating solutions for justice sector problems in the Balkans, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East. His projects ran the gamut of governance reforms, including justice institutional reform, local government service delivery, and corruption prevention efforts.

In 2018, he began working with USAID on a significant, multi-year rule of law lessons-learned effort. He wrote, co-wrote, edited, or contributed to several technical leadership documents, including the Rule of Law Practitioner’s Guide and the Security and Justice Indicators Guide. He co-authored and helped to coordinate the production of the U.S. government’s first-ever policy on the rule of law, sub-titled A Renewed Commitment to Justice, Rights, and Security for All.

Greg is a trained practitioner of agile and adaptive programming and human-centered legal design thinking. He conceptualized and co-led the start-up of USAID’s innovation and lessons learned lab, the Rule of Law IDEAS Lab, and wrote several of the Lab’s initial technical tools on people-centered justice. While attached to USAID’s procurement learning team, he led efforts to incorporate these design and management practices in daily tasks, leading training, coaching field mission teams, and producing technical usage guidance, Co-Creation: An Interactive Guide.

A graduate of Amherst College and the University of Minnesota Law School, Greg has been a law clerk to an Associate Justice of the Minnesota Supreme Court and an Assistant Attorney General for Minnesota. Originally from Portland, Oregon, he misses views of Mt. Hood, really good IPAs, the Hood-to-Coast relay, and Cycle Oregon.