Hien Tran

Hien Tran is on the Policy & Strategic Insights team of the Foundation Strategy Office of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Her work focuses on advising the foundation on strategic foresight and on policy issues beyond the perspectives of individual program teams. Hien previously was on the Program Advocacy team, where she led the agriculture development global policy portfolio, focusing on areas such as G7/G20, Sustainable Development Goals, and accountability. Prior to joining the foundation, Hien was the Global Advocacy Director at Landesa, where she was instrumental in getting women’s land rights issues in the post-2015 agenda. She was also counsel at the law firm of WilmerHale, where she focused on appellate cases raising novel issues of constitutional law and statutory interpretation. She previously clerked for Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg on the U.S. Supreme Court. Before her legal career, Hien worked with USAID, Office of Strategic and Economic Analysis in the Asia/Near East Bureau. Hien has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, an M.P.A. (economics and public policy) from Princeton University, and a B.A. from Yale University, magna cum laude.