Minh-Thu Pham

Minh-Thu Pham is a global policy entrepreneur working to defend democracy and empower civil society. She is co-founder of New American Voices, a pro-Biden super PAC that mobilizes Asian American voters and is Senior Advisor at Connect-Frontier LLC. Minh-Thu was a volunteer on the foreign policy teams for Pete for America and Biden for President. Previously, she was Executive Director of Global Policy at the United Nations Foundation (UNF); drawing on over 15 years of experience in international diplomacy, she led UNF’s efforts to help diplomats, think tank leaders, and global activists create and implement the Sustainable Development Goals. She was also a strategic planning and policy advisor to UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, focusing on U.S.-UN relations during a particularly difficult phase of that relationship, and she taught at Princeton.

Minh-Thu is a member of the Leadership Now Project; serves on the Dean's Advisory Council for Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs; is a fellow of the Truman National Security Project; a member of the Board of PIVOT, the nation’s leading progressive Vietnamese American political organization. She graduated from Duke University with a B.N. Duke Leadership Scholarship, and has a MPA from Princeton's School of Public and International Affairs. 

A proud former refugee, Minh-Thu came to the U.S. with her family after the Vietnam War; she currently lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.