David Young joined USAID in 2005 and currently serves as Deputy General Counsel (Foreign Service). Prior to returning to Washington in September 2014, he served as Resident Legal Officer in Khartoum,Sudan from 2009 to 2011 supporting USAID Missions in Sudan and South Sudan. Later, he served as Senior Resident Legal Officer in Kyiv, Ukraine from 2012 to 2014, where he covered legal issues for Ukraine, Moldova, Belarus, Cyprus, Bosnia, and Serbia. He began work at USAID as a Civil Service attorney supporting the Bureau for Latin America and the Caribbean from 2005 to 2009.

Before joining USAID, Mr. Young served as a US Air Force Judge Advocate in Texas and Japan from 1998 to 2002. Subsequently, he worked as counsel to the House Government Reform Committee from 2002 to 2005.

Mr. Young is a graduate of Temple University (Japan) (LLM 2002), William and Mary Law School (JD 1997) and Amherst College (BA 1994) and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar. He is part of a tandem couple with his husband Eric Andersen (State Department political officer).