John Custer

Biography

John Custer is AidData's Deputy Director of Communications and Data Analytics. His team's writing, editing, graphic design, data wrangling, and front end development support AidData's website, blog, data visualizations, interactive dashboards, and flagship reports.

John brings two decades of professional and international experience as AidData's Communications Manager. Prior to joining AidData, John co-founded an online coffee company and worked as the Government Relations Director for an NGO in Southeast Asia running multilingual education programs. John holds a BS in International Business from Grove City College. While at AidData, John went back to school and graduated from William & Mary in 2020 with a masters in business analytics.