Woo serves on the board of the American Hospital of Paris Foundation, as well as the Council of the Focused Ultrasound Foundation in Charlottesville, Va. She is a trustee of the Asian University for Women in Chittagong, Bangladesh; and in her capacity as the Director of International Higher Education Program, serves ex officio on the board of the Central European University in Budapest, Hungary, and the Governing Board of the European Humanities University, Vilnius, Lithuania. Woo was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve on the Presidential Commission on U.S.-Pacific Trade and Investment Policy. She has consulted for the World Bank, the United States Trade Representative, Social Science Research Council, Asian Development Bank Institute, United Nations Research Institute for Social Development, the Asia Foundation, and the MacArthur Foundation. She is on the editorial board of the Journal of East Asian Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, as well as Contemporary Politics Series on Comparative Political Economy, published in Beijing. She serves as an occasional guest expert on Asian politics for such media outlets as PBS, CNN, and The New York Times.