Jacqueline Corcoran is NDI’s resident senior director in Bangladesh. Before joining the Institute in 2007, she spent a career in senior policy and management positions in the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government.
Most recently, Ms. Corcoran served as staff director to the House whip in the Florida legislature, special counsel to the attorney general of Florida and economic development policy chief to the governor of Florida. Earlier, she spent a decade in Washington, D.C., five years as the principal foreign policy advisor and chief of staff to U.S. Congressman Tom Campbell and five years as a federal prosecutor, working with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Washington, D.C., and with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel prosecuting violations of the Hatch Political Activities Act and the Whistleblower Protection Act
Ms. Corcoran has traveled in professional and personal capacities to more than 40 countries throughout Africa, the Americas, Asia and Europe. She has advised countries in transition to democracy in Africa and Asia, assisted in organizing the first U.S.-Ireland Business Summit in Washington, D.C., led Congressional staff delegations to Africa and China, lectured at Georgetown University to emerging women leaders from developing nations, and served for 10 years as a trustee with Freedom From Hunger, an NGO that brings access to credit and health education to poor women worldwide.
Ms. Corcoran earned her law degree from Franklin Pierce Law Center in Concord, New Hampshire, having earlier graduated with a double degree in French and Public Relations from Florida Southern College. She is a member of the bar in Florida and D.C., and a member of the Women’s Foreign Policy Group.
