Andrew Wells-Dang: US-Vietnam Relations 50 Years After the War: Unlikely Partners

Biography

Andrew Wells-Dang a leading non-governmental expert in Southeast Asian politics, civil society, networks and governance. From 2021-2025, he led the Vietnam War Legacies and Reconciliation Initiative as a senior expert at the U.S. Institute of Peace in Washington, DC. He previously lived in Asia for over 20 years, holding senior positions as Deputy Director, Advocacy Strategy and Learning at CARE,  Senior Government Advisor at Oxfam, and Deputy Country Representative/Vietnam Representative for Catholic Relief Services. He has been responsible for managing education, governance and judicial reform programs funded by the U.S., UK, European Union and other donors. He was an advisor to multiple advocacy networks in China and Vietnam, Washington Representative of the Fund for Reconciliation and Development, and was an independent researcher based in Hoi An, Vietnam.

Wells-Dang is the author of Civil Society Networks in China and Vietnam: Informal Pathbreakers in Health and the Environment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), co-author of Pathways to Reconciliation: How Americans and Vietnamese have Transformed their Relationship (USIP, 2024), and authored numerous journal articles, book chapters and op-eds. 

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