USAID Vietnam mission announces new director, deputy director

The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) Mission in Vietnam on Wednesday announced the arrival of new leadership, the U.S. Embassy in Hanoi said in a press release the same day.

Michael Greene and Craig Hart, career members of the Senior Foreign Service, assumed the positions of mission director and deputy mission director for USAID Vietnam respectively in July this year.

Before this post, Greene was the director of the USAID Mission in the Kyrgyz Republic beginning in 2013, and the mission director for USAID/Azerbaijan from 2011 to 2013.

Before Azerbaijan, he served as director of the Regional Platform for Western Afghanistan starting in 2009, where he oversaw all USAID stabilization and development field staff, programs, and operations.

Greene also served in many other USAID posts since 1985, including Ecuador, Bangladesh, Bolivia, the Dominican Republic, Armenia, Croatia, and Peru.  

He holds an MBA in international finance from George Washington University and a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School.

Meanwhile, Hart has worked with USAID since 2005 in Washington D.C., Georgia, Afghanistan, and Tanzania.

Prior to USAID, he served as a Peace Corps country director, staff member, and volunteer in Russia, Turkmenistan, Macedonia, Poland, Kenya, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Armenia.

Hart has an M.S. in national security strategy from the National War College and an M.Ed. from the University of Vermont.

As leads for USAID Vietnam and primary development advisers for the U.S. Embassy, the two oversee development activities related to governance for broader-based and more inclusive growth, higher education, HIV/AIDS and avian influenza and other emerging pandemic threats, dioxin remediation at the Da Nang airport, climate change, and support for people with disabilities.

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