Ambassador (ret.) Nina Hachigian

Ambassador (ret.) Nina Hachigian is the founder and CEO of the Alliance for Local Leaders International, a nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to supporting and connecting mayors and governors globally to solve shared challenges. From 2022 to 2025, she was the first U.S. Special Representative for City and State Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State. 

Before that, Ambassador Hachigian served as the first Deputy Mayor for International Affairs for the City of Los Angeles for five years. From 2014 to 2017, Ambassador Hachigian served as the second U.S. Ambassador to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). Ambassador Hachigian served on the staff of the National Security Council in the Clinton White House from 1998-1999. She is the editor of Debating China: The U.S.-China Relationship in Ten Conversations (Oxford University Press, 2014) and co-author of The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive as Other Powers Rise (Simon & Schuster, 2008).