Jennifer Michelle Harris is an academic, who studies United States foreign policy and economics.

Early life

Harris' father is Ken Harris, a former Comanche County special district judge and her mother is Karen N. Youngblood, a former staff lawyer and political science professor at

Cameron University Cameron University is a public university in Lawton, Oklahoma. It offers more than 50 degrees through both undergraduate and graduate programs. The degree programs emphasize the liberal arts, science and technology, and graduate and professional ...

Education

Harris has a BA degree in economics and international relations from

Wake Forest University Wake Forest University is a private research university in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Founded in 1834, the university received its name from its original location in Wake Forest, north of Raleigh, North Carolina. The Reynolda Campus, the un ...

Winston-Salem, North Carolina Winston-Salem is a city and the county seat of Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. In the 2020 census, the population was 249,545, making it the second-largest municipality in the Piedmont Triad region, the 5th most populous city in ...

. Harris has a master's degree in Philosophy from

Oxford University Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to th ...

. Harris was a

Harry S. Truman Scholarship The Harry S. Truman Scholarship is the premier graduate fellowship in the United States for public service leadership. It is a federally funded scholarship granted to U.S. undergraduate students for demonstrated leadership potential, academic ...

recipient and a Rhodes Scholar. Harris has a JD from

Yale Law School Yale Law School (Yale Law or YLS) is the law school of Yale University, a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. It was established in 1824 and has been ranked as the best law school in the United States by '' U.S. News & Worl ...

Career

Harris started her career as a staff serving the U.S. National Intelligence Council with emphasis in economics and financial issues. Harris was a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR). Prior to joining CFR, Harris was a member of the policy planning staff at the

U.S. Department of State The United States Department of State (DOS), or State Department, is an executive department of the U.S. federal government responsible for the country's foreign policy and relations. Equivalent to the ministry of foreign affairs of other ...

responsible for global markets, geo-economic issues and energy security. In that role, Harris was a lead architect of Secretary of State

Hillary Clinton Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton ( Rodham; born October 26, 1947) is an American politician, diplomat, and former lawyer who served as the 67th United States Secretary of State for President Barack Obama from 2009 to 2013, as a United States sen ...

's Economic Statecraft agenda, which launched in 2011. In 2018, Harris became a Senior Fellow in Special Projects at

William and Flora Hewlett Foundation The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, commonly known as the Hewlett Foundation, is a private foundation, established by Hewlett-Packard cofounder William Redington Hewlett and his wife Flora Lamson Hewlett in 1966. The Hewlett Foundation awa ...

. As of 2018, Harris is also a nonresident senior fellow in Foreign Policy at

Brookings Institution The Brookings Institution, often stylized as simply Brookings, is an American research group founded in 1916. Located on Think Tank Row in Washington, D.C., the organization conducts research and education in the social sciences, primarily in e ...

. Harris' work has appeared in the ''

New York Times ''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid ...

'', Foreign Affairs, the ''Washington Quarterly,'' and the ''World Economic Forum'' among other outlets. Harris is the co-author of ''War By Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft''. In 2021, Harris was appointed the Senior Director for International Economics & Labor on the National Security Council.

Personal life

On August 27, 2016, Harris married Alexander Jacob Post (aka Sasha) in California.

Publications

References

External links

List of articles by Jennifer M. Harris at Foreignaffairs.com

Writing New Rules for the U.S.-China Investment Relationships. Report by Harris at CFR.org
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