Frank Jannuzi

Frank Jannuzi, ICAS Fellow, serves as Deputy Executive Director of Amnesty International USA, and head of the Washington, D.C. office. Frank is an international affairs policy and political expert who most recently served Chairman John Kerry as Policy Director for East Asian and Pacific Affairs for the Democratic staff of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (SFRC). His Senate service included work on human rights legislation (JADE Act on Burma, North Korea Human Rights Act, Tibet Policy Act) as well as field investigations into human rights and security conditions in numerous East Asian hotspots, including China (especially Tibet), Burma, Cambodia, Southern Thailand, Vietnam, Mindanao, and North Korea.

Prior to joining the staff of the SFRC, Frank worked as the East Asia regional political-military analyst for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), U.S. Department of State. His portfolio at INR included Chinas defense modernization, the Korean Peninsula, insurgencies and civil wars in Southeast Asia, and territorial disputes in the South China Sea and Kuril Islands. In 1990, Frank worked as a refugee officer on the Thai-Cambodia border, and returned as an electoral officer for Cambodias UN-run elections in May, 1993. He was the founding editor-in-chief of Peacekeeping Perspectives, the State Departments classified journal on multilateral peacekeeping and humanitarian operations. Frank holds a BA in history from Yale University and a MPP with a concentration in international affairs and security from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. In 2006, he conducted an International Affairs Fellowship in Japan, sponsored by Hitachi, Ltd., at the Institute for International Policy Studies and Keio University. Frank lives in Baltimore with his wife, Dr. Jennifer Martin, and their daughters Zoe and Camille.
Links for Frank Jannuzi
Bulletin of April 8, 2014
2012 ICAS Fall Symposium
Fall 2008 Symposium
Fall 2000 Symposium
Missile Defense and East Asia: Downside and Risks
Winter 1999 Symposium


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