Susan Berresford, convener of the US-Vietnam Dialogue Group, examines a map of the Danang airport, a dioxin "hot spot" where Agent Orange and other military herbicides were dispersed.
The US-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin was established in February 2007 with support from the Ford Foundation. The group has identified ways to deal with the most pressing of the human and environmental consequences of the U.S. military's defoliation campaign. This bipartisan, non-governmental initiative is comprised of distinguished policy makers, scientists, and nonprofit and business leaders. Leading the Vietnamese side is Ambassador Ngo Quang Xuan, vice chair of the Vietnamese National Assembly's Foreign Affairs Committee, and leading the U.S. side is Walter Isaacson, president and CEO of the Aspen Institute.
U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group
- Susan V. Berresford
- Convener
- U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin
- Former President
- Ford Foundation
Vietnam Members
- Ambassador Ngo Quang Xuan
- Co-chair
- U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin
- Vice Chair
- Foreign Affairs Committee
- Vietnam National Assembly
- Former Ambassador
- Permanent Mission of S.R. of Vietnam to the UN & other International Organizations in Geneva
- Prof. Vo Quy
- Center for Natural Resources & Environmental Studies,
- Vietnam National University, Hanoi
- Dr. Nguyen Thi Ngoc Phuong
- Chief of Obstetrics & Gynecology
- Medical University of Ho Chi Minh City
- Director-General
- Ngoc Tam Hospital Corporation
- Do Hoang Long
- Deputy Director
- People to People Relations Department
- Party External Relations Commission
- Lt. General Phung Khac Dang
- Vice President
- Vietnam Veterans Association
U.S. Members
- Walter Isaacson
- Co-chair
- U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange/Dioxin
- President and CEO
- The Aspen Institute
- Christine Todd Whitman
- President
- Whitman Strategy Group
- William Mayer
- President and CEO
- Park Avenue Equity Partners
- Chairman Emeritus
- The Aspen Institute
- Mary Dolan-Hogrefe
- Vice President and Senior Advisor
- National Organization on Disability
- Director
- World Committee on Disability
- Dr. Vaughan Turekian
- Chief International Officer
- American Academy for the Advancement of Science
Dialogue Group Staff
- Charles R. Bailey
- Director
- Special Initiative on Agent Orange/Dioxin
- Ford Foundation
- Catharin Dalpino
- Director
- Advocacy & Exchange Program on Agent Orange/Dioxin
- The Aspen Institute
- James Hoppes
- Program Assistant
- Advocacy & Exchange Program on Agent Orange/ Dioxin
- The Aspen Institute
- Suzanne Shea
- Grants Administrator
- Ford Foundation
The Aspen Institute's Advocacy and Exchange Program on Agent Orange/Dioxin promotes dialogue within the U.S. policy community and, through the Dialogue Group, between the United States and Vietnam on solutions to the continuing impact of the wartime use of herbicides.