Anny Vu is the Deputy Coordinator for Bilateral Affairs in the State Department’s Office of China Coordination. She has served as a member of the Secretary’s Policy Planning staff. Anny worked at the National Security Council under two Administrations, most recently as a Director for China and previously as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for International Organizations, Deputy Senior Director for African Affairs, and Director for U.N. and Multilateral Affairs.

She has served at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations in New York, at the U.S. Embassies in Beijing and Paris, and in Washington, D.C., where she had assignments in the Operations Center and the bureaus of East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Western Hemisphere Affairs. As a Davis Fellow, Anny was an adjunct associate professor at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.

Anny is a graduate of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the University of California Los Angeles. She speaks Mandarin, Vietnamese, Indonesian and French. A native of Orange County, California, she is married to a Foreign Service Officer and has a daughter.