Marcia K. Wong

Marcia K. Wong is the Director for Intergovernmental Affairs at the US Institute of Peace.  Before joining the Institute in 2011, Wong was a Senior Foreign Service Officer with the U.S. Department of State. Her last assignment in the Department of State was as the Associate Dean at the Foreign Service Institute, where she oversaw training for U.S. Government personnel being deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and other complex operations.

Wong was instrumental in establishing two new organizations in the State Department:  the Secretary’s Office of Reconstruction and Stabilization as its first Deputy Coordinator (Deputy Assistant Secretary-rank) and the Secretary’s Office for Foreign Assistance as the Senior Coordinator for South and East Asia, for which she received a Special Interagency Act Award from the USAID Administrator. In both positions, she led diverse teams in developing an integrated response to crisis and conflict and in creating multi-million dollar foreign assistance strategies.  Overseas assignments include the USAID Mission in Macedonia, where she served as its Economic Growth Director and supported project development in Kosovo; US Embassy Moscow, Russia, where she served as Deputy Economic Counselor and US Embassy Tokyo, Japan, where she directed the Trade and Investment Division.

Wong also served as Deputy Executive Secretary to Secretaries of State Powell and Rice and as Special Assistant to Secretary of State Shultz.  She is the recipient of several State Department and USAID Superior and Meritorious Honor awards. She holds B.A. degrees in International Relations and Political Science from Brown University. Department of State training includes Russian, Japanese, and Spanish language studies, senior executive leadership training, and a one-year masters-level program in Economics.