Frank J Young

Frank J Young has spent over four decades working in international development including 35 years as a Foreign Service Officer with the US Agency for International Development. He has served at US Embassies in the Philippines, India, Bangladesh, and Ghana where he was Director of the USAID Mission. In Washington, he has been in senior positions in USAID’s Asia and Africa Bureaus. In the private sector, Dr. Young was Vice President for Strategic Planning at Abt Associates in Bethesda, Maryland, and as also taught national security studies at the National War College at Fort McNair in Washington, D.C., and international development at Syracuse University. Since retiring from the Foreign Service in 2014, Dr. Young has served on the boards of the Sarasota World Affairs Council and the Foreign Service Retirees Association of Florida, and on the Advisory Board of the School of International Studies at the University of the Pacific in Stockton, California. He holds a BA degree from the University of the Pacific (Callison College), an MALD and PhD. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and an MSc from the National War College.