Nazanin Ash
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![]() Nazanin Ash at the Berkley Centre, November 6, 2019 | |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Bryn Mawr College Harvard Kennedy School |
Organization | Welcome.US |
Known for | Refugee activism |
Nazanin Ash is the CEO of Welcome.US and has previously worked in the US State Department and at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on international development and HIV/AIDS.
Born to parents who fled Iran, she is an advocate for American support for refugees.
Early life[]
Ash was born to parents from Iran.[1]
Education[]
Ash has bachelor's degree in political science from Bryn Mawr College where she received the Hope Wearn Troxell Memorial Prize.[2]
She has a master's degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government where she was also a Sheldon Fellow, an Imagitas Fellow, and a Public Service Fellow.[2] While at Harvard she won the Kennedy School's Rising Star Award, in 2003.[2]
Career[]
Ash has worked as the Chief of Staff for Randall L. Tobias when he served as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator, and at USAID during the Bush Administration.[3] She also worked as the Deputy Assistant Secretary, at the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs during the Obama administration.[4][5][6]
In 2021, she was the Vice President of Global Policy and Advocacy at the International Rescue Committee.[7] As of December 2021 was working as the CEO of Welcome.US.[1] She previously worked with ActionAid on HIV/AIDS.[2]
She is a policy fellow at the Center for Global Development.[8]
Opinions[]
Ash has stated that USA should support refugee-hosting countries in the Middle East.[4][9][10]
References[]
- ^ a b "Nazanin Ash on Afghan Refugee Resettlement Efforts in U.S. | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
- ^ a b c d "Nazanin Ash BIOGRAPHY". US Department of State archive. 17 August 2007.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Bass, Emily. To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa. United States: PublicAffairs, 2021.
- ^ a b Salehyan, Idean (September 2019). INSIDERS’ PERSPECTIVES: FORGOTTEN REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT CONSENSUS AND MOTIVATION. Niskanen Centre.
- ^ Ash, Nazanin; Miliband, David (10 Feb 2021). "Opinion: The global problems Biden can't avoid". CNN. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
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: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ "People are donating frequent-flyer miles to provide flights for Afghan refugees". New York Post. Associated Press. 2021-10-27. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
- ^ "IRC testimony to the US Senate urging increased funding for refugees and displaced people - World". ReliefWeb. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
- ^ Affairs, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World. "Nazanin Ash". berkleycenter.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
- ^ Fakhoury, Tamirace (2021-11-16). "The external dimension of EU migration policy as region-building? Refugee cooperation as contentious politics". Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 0 (0): 1–19. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2021.1972568. ISSN 1369-183X.
- ^ Fakhoury, Tamirace. "Lebanon as a Test Case for the EU’s Logic of Governmentality in Refugee Challenges." ARIES 20 (2020): 94. Harvard
- Harvard University alumni
- Bryn Mawr College alumni
- John F. Kennedy University alumni
- Living people
- American chief executives
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- People in international development