Nina Hachigian

The Honorable Nina L. Hachigian
United States Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
In office September 2014 – January 2017
President	Barack Obama
Preceded by	David Carden
Personal details
Children	2
Education	Yale University, Stanford University

Nina Lucine Hachigian is an American political scientist who most recently served as the United States Representative to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (“ASEAN”) with the rank of Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary. She was sworn in as the United States Ambassador on September 19, 2014 and served until January 20, 2017. In her capacity as Chief of the U.S. Mission to ASEAN, Ambassador Hachigian was responsible for working with ASEAN member states and other stakeholders to advance U.S. interests in a peaceful, prosperous, and integrated Southeast Asia that supports human dignity and a rules-based regional order. The Mission’s five priorities in the U.S. relationship with ASEAN are supporting economic integration, expanding maritime cooperation, cultivating emerging leaders, promoting opportunity for women, and addressing transnational challenges.

Ambassador Hachigian received her B.S. from Yale University and her J.D. from Stanford Law School.

She was a senior political scientist at the RAND Corporation and served as the director of the RAND Center for Asia Pacific Policy for four years. From 1998 to 1999, she was on the staff of the National Security Council in the White House.

She was a Senior Fellow and Senior Vice President at the Center for American Progress.

Hachigian was on the board of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Affairs at Stanford University. She was a member of the State Department’s Foreign Affairs Policy Board, the Council on Foreign Relations, and the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Ambassador Hachigian was the editor of Debating China: The U.S. – China Relationship in Ten Conversations (Oxford University Press, 2014) and co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008). Hachigian also published numerous reports, book chapters, and articles, including in Foreign Affairs, The Washington Quarterly, Democracy, and Survival, as well as op-ed pieces appearing in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and the South China Morning Post. She also co-authored The Information Revolution in Asia (RAND, 2003). Ambassador Hachigian has been a guest on a variety of news programs.

As U.S. Ambassador, Hachigian oversaw the broadening engagement of the United States in Southeast Asia, which included the Obama Administration's 2011 "pivot" or "rebalance" to the region. Based in the U.S. Mission to ASEAN in Jakarta, Indonesia, she traveled throughout ASEAN's 10 member states and Asia. Her responsibilities included supporting ASEAN as it moves toward economic integration in 2015 and advocating for the systemic changes necessary to promote peaceful and prosperous growth in the region.

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