Dr. Amy Weissman has more than 25 years of experience designing, implementing and evaluating international development policies and programs. As FHI 360’s acting vice president of the Asia and Pacific Region, she leads the regional portfolio, which includes programming aimed at improving social cohesion and equity, addressing emerging and persistent global health challenges, and responding to the climate crisis.
Weissman has held several roles at FHI 360, including deputy regional director of the Asia and Pacific Region in Thailand. In Cambodia, she served both as associate director — leading the infectious disease prevention portfolio for FHI 360 — and as regional advisor for the organization’s Alive & Thrive initiative. She was also the chief of party of USAID Nurture, an integrated nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene project in Lao People’s Democratic Republic. Weissman has also worked with UNICEF in their regional Latin America and Caribbean office, FHI 360 in Botswana, and Save the Children in Vietnam, where she was the technical director. Prior to that, she oversaw Save the Children’s global adolescent health program and led a gender initiative for the World Wildlife Fund.
Weissman has a doctorate from the University of North Carolina’s School of Public Health, with a dissertation on addressing the identified sociopolitical barriers to scaling up a national nutrition response in Cambodia. She holds master’s degrees in public health and in natural resource policy and behavior from the University of Michigan and a bachelor’s degree in cultural anthropology and gender studies from Macalester College.
