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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.[1]

Education

Harris has a BA degree in economics and international relations from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.[2] Harris has a master's degree in philosophy from Oxford University.[2] Harris was a Harry S. Truman Scholarship recipient and a Rhodes Scholar. Harris has a JD from Yale Law School.[2]

Career

Harris started her career as a staff serving the U.S. National Intelligence Council with emphasis in economics and financial issues.[2]

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 responsible for global markets, geo-economic issues and energy security. In that role, Harris was a lead architect of Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's Economic Statecraft agenda, which launched in 2011.[3]

In 2018, Harris became a Senior Fellow in Special Projects at William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.[2] As of 2018, Harris is also a nonresident senior fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution.[4]

Harris' work has appeared in the New York Times, 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.[5][6]

In 2021, Harris was appointed the Senior Director for International Economics & Labor on the U.S. National Security Council.[7]

Personal life

On August 27, 2016, Harris married Alexander Jacob Post (aka Sasha) in California.[1]

Publications

  • Blackwill, Robert D.; Harris, Jennifer M. (2016). War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft. The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674737211. OCLC 948071570.

References

  1. ^ a b "Jennifer Harris, Sasha Post". The New York Times. August 28, 2016. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Jennifer Harris". Hewlett.org. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
  3. ^ Jennifer M. Harris. Retrieved March 30, 2023. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
  4. ^ "Jennifer M.Harris". Brookings Institution. Retrieved December 14, 2018.
  5. ^ Blackwill, Robert D.; Harris, Jennifer M. (11 April 2016). War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft: Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill, Jennifer M. Harris: 9780674737211: Amazon.com: Books. Harvard University Press. ISBN 978-0674737211.
  6. ^ Robert D. Blackwill. "Robert D. Blackwill and Jennifer M. Harris: War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft - Council on Foreign Relations". Council on Foreign Relations.
  7. ^ Meyer, Theodoric (March 22, 2021). "Meet the new Jared Bernstein". Politico. Retrieved March 30, 2023.

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