Eskinder Negash
President, CEO, USCRI
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Eskinder Negash is President and CEO of the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants (), an organization founded in 1911 to protect the rights and address the needs of persons in forced or voluntary鈥痬igration鈥痺orldwide and support their transition to a dignified life. Mr. Negash brings 40 years of proven non-profit management experience on behalf of聽refugees,聽immigrants and聽other vulnerable populations.聽He served in the Obama Administration from 2009-2015 as Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), the largest government-funded refugee resettlement organization in the world. Under聽Negash鈥檚聽leadership, ORR served a total of 850,000 people. He also served as Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of USCRI and Vice鈥疨resident and Chief Administrative Officer of the International Institute of Los Angeles.聽He received an 鈥淥utstanding American By Choice鈥� award from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services and has聽been a board member of the Joint Voluntary Agencies Committee of California, the California State Refugee Advisory Council, the Coalition for Human Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles and is currently a board member of InterAction, the largest coalition of non-profits within the United States.