John Quoc Duong - Definition and Overview

John Quoc Duong was born in 1973, in Saigon, in South Vietnam. He immigrated to the United States in 1982. He is the Executive Director of the White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPIs). He is a member of the President's Advisory Commission on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders to advise the President on the needs and concerns of the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders' population.

Pertaining to Executive Order 13216, he is in charge of all federal activities to increase opportunities for and improve the quality of life of over twelve million Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders in the United States.

He attended University of California, and graduated.

External links

• Duong Will Head White House Initiative on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (http://www.searac.org/prwhiaa.html)
• John Quoc Duong (http://www.asianamerican.net/bios/Duong-John.html) listed in Who's Who of Asian Americans
• John Quoc Duong Biographic Sketch (http://www.icasinc.org/bios/duong_j.html) by the Institute for Corean-American Studies
• John Quoc Duong (http://www.venguon.org/02program/quocduong.html)
• John Quoc Duong Biography (http://www.hatlua.com/via1/index.php?page=johnquocduong)