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Keoni Williams Keoni Williams

Keoni M. Williams is an information and publications officer at the Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP), a program of the East-West Center dedicated to serving the nations and peoples of the Pacific through innovative capacity building, interchange among regional leaders, and policy-relevant research.

Before joining PIDP, he served as a law clerk at Honolulu law firm, editor-in-chief of the Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, fellow in the US House of Representatives, and judicial extern at the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court. Prior to that, Keoni worked as a program director at Pacific Forum, a Hawaiʻi-based foreign policy think tank focused on the Asia-Pacific region.

Born and raised in Hawaiʻi, Keoni is of Micronesian and Welsh decent and has lived in New Zealand and Korea. He earned his Juris Doctor from the William S. Richardson School of Law while he was a Graduate Degree Fellow at the East-West Center, and he holds a dual BA in communications and Korean from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Keoni M. Williams is an information and publications officer at the Pacific Islands Development Program (PIDP), a program of the East-West Center dedicated to serving the nations and peoples of the Pacific through innovative capacity building, interchange among regional leaders, and policy-relevant research.

Before joining PIDP, he served as a law clerk at Honolulu law firm, editor-in-chief of the Asian-Pacific Law & Policy Journal, fellow in the US House of Representatives, and judicial extern at the Hawaiʻi Supreme Court. Prior to that, Keoni worked as a program director at Pacific Forum, a Hawaiʻi-based foreign policy think tank focused on the Asia-Pacific region.

Born and raised in Hawaiʻi, Keoni is of Micronesian and Welsh decent and has lived in New Zealand and Korea. He earned his Juris Doctor from the William S. Richardson School of Law while he was a Graduate Degree Fellow at the East-West Center, and he holds a dual BA in communications and Korean from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

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