Minh-Thu Pham is Director of Public Policy at the United Nations Foundation where she is responsible for managing and developing policy positions with respect to the United Nations and advancing its relationship with the United States.  She was previously Chief of Staff for the UN Secretary-General's Special Envoy for Malaria.  Before that she was Policy Advisor in the Executive Office of the Secretary-General serving both Kofi Annan and Ban Ki-moon, where she was responsible for developing and implementing policy on UN reform, advising and staffing senior UN officials during a particularly difficult phase of the US-UN relationship, and helping to integrate peacebuilding throughout the UN system.  Her experience also includes working in the Office of the High Representative in Bosnia-Herzegovina on implementing the Dayton Peace Accord and addressing refugee and education issues in Africa with the UN and several humanitarian and advocacy organizations.  

She holds degrees from the Woodrow Wilson School of International and Public Affairs at Princeton University and from Duke University.  She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Board Member of the Coalition for Asian-American Children and Families.  She was born in Vietnam, grew up in North Carolina and currently lives in New York City.