Kuang Chiang is of counsel in Morrison Foerster’s National Security Group. A former Licensing Officer at the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), she focuses her practice on economic sanctions and export controls.

Kuang advises U.S. and international companies and financial institutions on a broad spectrum of compliance and enforcement matters, including licensing requests, voluntary self-disclosures, internal investigations, and compliance assessments. Her practice also includes national security reviews before the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS).

Before entering private practice, Kuang served as a License Examining Officer at OFAC in its Blocked Assets and Complex Matters licensing section. At OFAC, she reviewed license requests from exporters and financial institutions in a variety of sanctions programs, working with OFAC and interagency colleagues to prepare licenses, denials, and interpretive rulings on behalf of the agency on a wide spectrum of topics such as the exportation and reexportation of services and commodities, the disposition of blocked property, transfers of funds, and dealings with corporations owned by blocked persons.

Kuang earned her J.D. from Boston College Law School, her Master of Public Administration from New York University, and her B.A. in Comparative Literature (Chinese) from Brown University.