Marcia Wong
Independent - Former Deputy Assistant Administrator for Humanitarian Assistance, USAID
Marcia K. Wong has over thirty years of diplomatic, development and humanitarian experience with the US government and international organizations, most recently as a Deputy Assistant Administrator in USAID’s Bureau for Humanitarian Assistance. Before rejoining the US government in 2022, she led a team to advance humanitarian diplomacy and partnerships as the Head of Policy of the International Committee of the Red Cross/Regional delegation to the US and Canada, 2015-2022. Other complex crisis positions at the State Department included establishing the Bureau for Conflict and Stability Operations, serving as Senior Coordinator for complex crises in the Office of Foreign Assistance, and as Associate Dean for Stability Operations training; at USAID, she served as a senior policy advisor in the former Bureau for Democracy, Humanitarian Assistance, and Conflict.
Her diplomatic career also focused on energy, security and economic sector reforms, with overseas tours in Russia, Northern Macedonia (and support to Kosovo) and Japan, with extensive travel in Africa, Middle East and Asia while serving on the executive staff of three Secretaries of State. She has degrees in International Relations and Political Science from Brown University and was a MIT Seminar XXI Fellow.
