Veena Reddy is taking on a new role as the Mission Director for India with the US Agency for International Development (USAID). She is currently a foreign service officer and is Cambodia’s Mission Director. She currently oversees a staff of 75 as well as USAID programs in the food security, environment, health, education, and more.
Veena has served as the deupty mission director in Haiti, where she oversaw post-earthquake reconstruction efforts, elections support, economic growth, and the development of a new strategy. She had also served as an assistant general counsel, covering legal matters for USAID’s programs in Asia, Middle East, and Afghanistan and Pakistan.
Veena holds a JD from the Columbia University School of Law, and has MA and Ba degrees from the University of Chicago.