The Asia Foundation

Expertise: Legal rights and legal literacy; non-formal education; alternative dispute resolution; counter-corruption; participatory monitoring and evaluation; women's issues; and Afghanistan.

Meloney Lindberg currently serves as deputy country representative in Afghanistan. In the Kabul office Ms. Lindberg manages programs related to women and higher education. She joined The Asia Foundation in 2002 as assistant country representative in the Philippines. In this position she helped to manage programs in countering corruption, economic reform, rule of law, and women’s empowerment.

Prior to joining The Asia Foundation, Ms. Lindberg worked for the consulting firm Development Alternatives, Inc. (DAI) as a program and grants management specialist in Washington, D.C. She managed a multi-country study of women's organizations in post-conflict settings for USAID's Center for Development Information and Evaluation and was the project director for a global small grants initiative focused on property and inheritance rights, women's working conditions, and conservation-based income generating opportunities for women. From 1994 to 1998, Ms. Lindberg worked in The Asia Foundation's Nepal office as a program officer for Women's Legal Rights, Responsibilities, and Advocacy. She also previously served as coordinator of International Relations, International Exchange Department, Kagoshima City Hall; Kagoshima, Japan.

Education: B.A. in international studies from Miami University; M.A. in international and intercultural management from the School for International Training, World Learning; Brattleboro, Vermont.