Toayoa Aldridge

Toayoa Aldridge is the Assistant Inspector General for the Office of Audits, Inspections, and Evaluations (OAI&E) at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Office of Inspector General (OIG). In this role, she supervises OAI&E’s regional hubs in Asia, Europe, Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean, as well as six U.S.-based OAI&E units: the Audit Support Division, Global and Strategic Audits and Millennium Challenge Corporation Division, Information Technology Audits, Financial Audits, External Financial Audits, and Inspections and Evaluations. She provides guidance and strategic direction to three executives and a workforce comprised of 150 supervisors, managers, and staff—in the United States and abroad—in policy and process development, training, quality assurance, and the planning, design, execution, and reporting of financial and performance audits, inspections, and evaluations. Ms. Aldridge has over 20 years’ experience in the accountability community, where she started as a junior analyst at the Government Accountability Office in its Financial Markets and Community Investment team. She previously served as the Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Audit at the Smithsonian Institution OIG, and in senior audit management positions at the District of Columbia OIG, U.S. Department of Transportation OIG, and the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board Internal Oversight and Performance Assurance Team. She has been active in the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency (CIGIE) community for several years, participating in several Audit Committee and Professional Development Committee activities. Currently, she is the Vice-Chair of the Federal Audit Executive Committee. Ms. Aldridge began her professional career on Wall Street as a financial accountant with J.P. Morgan Securities and the Carlyle Group.