Francisco Bencosme (SSP’16), Senior Advisor to the Acting Assistant Secretary of the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau at the U.S. Department of State
Prior to his new position, alumnus Francisco Bencosme was a senior policy advisor at Open Society Foundations, where he focused on Asia and Latin America policy. From 2018 to 2020, he was the Asia Pacific advocacy manager at Amnesty International. Previously, Bencosme was a professional staff member at the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, where he assisted Democratic Senators on issues related to East Asia and the Pacific, South Asia and State Department and USAID oversight.