Lida Noory has more than 20 years of experience across federal and non-governmental sectors, working with international governments, civil society, private sector, and academia on foreign and domestic related policies as well as international development. Most recently, she served at the White House as Chief of Staff for the Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Industrial Innovation Division (2023-2024). For seventeen years, Lida served in the Secretary’s Office of Global Women’s Issues (S/GWI) at the U.S. Department of State, where she held various senior leadership roles including Division Chief for Women, Peace, and Security. As the Director of Policy, she managed cross-functioning teams on a wide range of policy issues—such as preventing and responding to gender-based violence; advancing women’s economic empowerment; supporting adolescent girls; the role of women in conflict and crisis environments, and multilateral negotiations. From 2011 to 2022, she served as Senior Policy Advisor on Afghanistan to the Ambassador-at-Large for Global Women’s Issues and prior to that she led the Iraq policy portfolio as well as managed the multi-million dollar Iraqi Women’s Democracy Initiative and Secretary’s Iraqi Widows Program. Her leadership has also extended to disability rights, having supported the State Department’s Special Advisor on International Disability Rights to promote inclusive foreign policy and protections for persons with disabilities in crisis and conflict settings. Before joining the State Department, Ms. Noory was the Director of Foreign Policy and International Women's Issues at the Independent Women's Forum (IWF), a non-government organization in Washington, DC. 

Lida is a 2024 White House Leadership Development Program Fellow, Rodel Institute Executive Fellow, 2016 McCain Global Leader and serves on the McCain Institute Global Leaders Advisory Council. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in media studies and studies of women and gender, with a minor in studio art, from the University of Virginia.