Nazanin Ash
Nazanin Ash at the Berkley Centre, November 6, 2019
NationalityAmerican
Alma materBryn Mawr College
Harvard Kennedy School
OrganizationWelcome.US[1]
Known forRefugee advocacy

Nazanin Ash is the Chief Executive Officer of Welcome.US and has previously worked in the US State Department of state in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs leading the Middle East Partnership Initiative and at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on international development and HIV/AIDS.[2] Born to parents who left Iran, she is an advocate for American support for refugees, and was named in Washingtonian's list of the 500 most influential people in Washington, DC, in 2022.[3][4]

Early life and education

Ash was born in Kansas to parents from Iran.[5][6] Both her parents emigrated to the United States as students, expecting to return home after her father completed his Ph.D., but decided not to go back to Iran following the 1979 Islamic Revolution.[6]

She earned a bachelor's degree in political science from Bryn Mawr College, where she received the Hope Wearn Troxell Memorial Prize.[7] She then pursued a master's degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University where she was also a Sheldon Fellow, an Imagitas Fellow, and a Public Service Fellow.[7] In 2003, she was one of two alumni awarded the Kennedy School's Rising Star Award.[7]

Career

From 2002 to 2003, Ash worked with ActionAid Kenya as its program officer for HIV/AIDS.[7] In 2003, she was appointed by President George W. Bush as one of twelve White House Fellows.[7]

Ash worked as the Chief of Staff for Randall L. Tobias when he served as the United States Global AIDS Coordinator, and at United States Agency for International Development during the Presidency of George W. Bush.[8] She also worked as the Deputy Assistant Secretary, at the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs during the Presidency of Barack Obama.[9][10][11] In 2021, she was the Vice President of Global Policy and Advocacy at the International Rescue Committee.[12] She was also a visiting policy fellow at the Center for Global Development, where she focused on aid effectiveness and political and economic reform in the Middle East.[13][14]

In September 2021, Ash was appointed CEO of Welcome.US,[5][15] which was founded to help resettle 100,000 Afghan refugees within a period of six months.[6] Welcome.US advocates reform of the US asylum system with an emphasis on the role of non-governmental organizations in "building civil society partnerships on behalf of Afghan newcomers".[16]

Advocacy

Ash has also been vocal about the Ongoing Yemeni crisis.[17] She has also stated that the United States should support refugee-hosting countries in the Middle East.[9][18][19]

In April 2022, Ash was a key speaker at Accenture's 2022 Women's Leadership Forum alongside Amal Clooney, Judith McKenna, Julie Sweet, amongst others.[20]

Ash was named to Washingtonian's list of the 500 most influential people in Washington, DC, in 2022.[21]

Selected publications

References

  1. ↑ Lane, Randell. "Exclusive: Inside the new power CEO club quietly welcoming refugees". forbes.Com. Retrieved 2020-10-03.
  2. ↑ "Board of Directors Nazanin Ash". Foreign Policy for America. Retrieved October 10, 2022.
  3. ↑ "Washington DC's 500 Most Influential People". May 3, 2022.
  4. ↑ "Nazanin Ash". Foreign Policy for America.
  5. 1 2 "Nazanin Ash on Afghan Refugee Resettlement Efforts in U.S. | C-SPAN.org". www.c-span.org. C-span. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  6. 1 2 3 "How Welcome.US Is Empowering Americans to Support Refugees". Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors. March 3, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 "Nazanin Ash BIOGRAPHY". US Department of State archive. US Department of State. 17 August 2007.
  8. ↑ Bass, Emily. To End a Plague: America's Fight to Defeat AIDS in Africa. United States: PublicAffairs, 2021.
  9. 1 2 Salehyan, Idean (September 2019). INSIDERS' PERSPECTIVES: FORGOTTEN REFUGEE RESETTLEMENT CONSENSUS AND MOTIVATION. Niskanen Centre.
  10. ↑ Ash, Nazanin; Miliband, David (10 Feb 2021). "Opinion: The global problems Biden can't avoid". CNN. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  11. ↑ "People are donating frequent-flyer miles to provide flights for Afghan refugees". New York Post. Associated Press. 2021-10-27. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  12. ↑ "IRC testimony to the US Senate urging increased funding for refugees and displaced people - World". ReliefWeb. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
  13. ↑ "Nazanin Ash". Centre for International Governance Innovation. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  14. ↑ Affairs, Berkley Center for Religion, Peace and World. "Nazanin Ash". berkleycenter.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2022-01-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  15. ↑ "Press". Welcome.US. Retrieved 2022-10-28.
  16. ↑ Dionne, E. J. (December 1, 2021). "Proper thanks to our Afghan allies requires more than words". Washington Post. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
  17. ↑ "'I feel lucky': millions have fled war-torn Yemen – the US has accepted 50". The Guardian. June 27, 2019.
  18. ↑ 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. Routledge. 48 (12): 2908–2926. doi:10.1080/1369183X.2021.1972568. ISSN 1369-183X. S2CID 244379000.
  19. ↑ Fakhoury, Tamirace. "Lebanon as a Test Case for the EU’s Logic of Governmentality in Refugee Challenges." ARIES 20 (2020): 94. Harvard
  20. ↑ "Women's Leadership Forum 2022 | Accenture". www.accenture.com. Retrieved 2022-10-29.
  21. ↑ "Meet DC's Most Influential". Washingtonian. May 11, 2022. Retrieved 2022-10-06.
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