Professor Ng has extensive legal experience working in the private, NGO, and government sectors. He is currently an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) where he provides legal and policy advice for the Agency’s private sector engagement team. He also co-leads the D.C. chapter of the Impact Investing Legal Working Group. He previously served as the USAID attorney for Power Africa, a presidential initiative launched by the Obama Administration with the goal of doubling electricity access in sub-Saharan Africa.
Prior to joining USAID, Professor Ng was the first Global Legal Director for Ashoka: Innovators for the Public, an international NGO known for starting the modern social entrepreneurship movement. While at Ashoka, Professor Ng developed the idea for the first center for law and social entrepreneurship, which is now the Grunin Center for Law and Social Entrepreneurship at NYU Law School and for which he serves as an advisory board member.
Professor Ng began his legal career at White & Case LLP in its New York office in the energy, infrastructure and project finance practice group.
Professor Ng received a B.A. and B.S., with distinction, from the University of Kansas, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He received his J.D., cum laude, from the University of Notre Dame Law School. Professor Ng is licensed to practice law in New York State.
