Viet Dinh

Viet D. Dinh is founder and principal of Bancroft Associates. He is Professor of Law and Co-Director of Asian Law & Policy Studies at the Georgetown University Law Center. He also serves as a Director and Chair of the Corporate Governance Committee of the News Corporation. Dinh previously served as U.S. Assistant Attorney General for Legal Policy at the U.S. Department of Justice from 2001 to 2003. In that capacity, Dinh conducted a comprehensive review and revision of Department of Justice priorities, policies and practices to ensure that all available resources are dedicated to protecting America against terrorist acts. He played a key role in developing the USA Patriot Act and revising the Attorney General’s Guidelines, which govern federal law enforcement activities and national security investigations.

Dinh holds or has held positions on the boards of Liberty’s Promise, the American Judicature Society, the Transition Committee for California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, the Section on National Security Law of the Association of American Law Schools, and the ABA Section on Administrative Law. He previously served as Associate Special Counsel to the U.S. Senate Whitewater Committee, Special Counsel to Senator Pete V. Domenici for the Impeachment Trial of the President, and counsel to the Special Master in In re Austrian and German Bank Holocaust Litigation.

Dinh graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and Harvard Law School, where he was a Class Marshal, Olin Research Fellow in Law and Economics, and Bluebook editor of Harvard Law Review. He clerked for Judge Laurence H. Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit and U.S Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor. He is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia and is a member of the bar for the U.S. Supreme Court.