Ms. Hanh Nguyen, a career diplomat and Senior Foreign Service Officer with the rank of Counselor, is currently serving as an Assistant Professor at the National War College (NWC) with a focus on the Indo-Pacific.
Before coming to NWC, she was the Deputy Mission Director and Acting Mission Director to the USAID Mission in Cambodia. Prior to Cambodia, she was part of the leadership team to establish the USAID Regional Platform for the Middle East and North Africa in Frankfurt and the mission in Tunisia, where she negotiated USAID’s first-ever bilateral economic assistance agreement with the government. In prior overseas assignments, she served as the Senior Legal Officer to USAID/Serbia, Montenegro, Macedonia, Bosnia, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Tunisia, Morocco and Iraq.
Ms. Nguyen was an attorney with the American Civil Liberties Union representing prisoners and detainees seeking remedy for inhuman detention conditions. She also worked as a prosecutor at the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague and taught international human rights law as adjunct faculty at Boston College Law School.
Ms. Nguyen holds a J.D. and a M.S.W. in Social Policy from Boston College, and a B.A. from Brandeis University.
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