Jessica Stern

Office Address
Non Resident
Mailing Address
John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mailbox 14
79 JFK Street
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Phone: 617-495-3508
Fax: 617-496-4867
Email: Jessica_Stern@ksg.harvard.edu
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Jessica Stern, Lecturer in Public Policy. Stern teaches courses on terrorism and counterterrorism. She is the author of Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, The Ultimate Terrorists, and numerous articles on terrorism and proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. She served on President Clintons National Security Council Staff in 1994-95. Stern was selected by Time Magazine in 2001 as one of seven thinkers whose innovative ideas will change the world. Stern advises a number of government agencies on issues related to terrorism, and has taught courses for government officials. She is a member of the Trilateral Commission. She has served on the Advisory Boards of a number of organizations, including the American Bar Association Committee on Law Enforcement and National Security; and on the editorial boards of Current History, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, among others. She was named a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, a National Fellow at Stanford Universitys Hoover Institution, a Fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a Harvard MacArthur Fellow. Stern ealier worked as an analyst at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. She has a bachelors degree from Barnard College in chemistry, a masters degree from MIT in technology policy, and a doctorate from Harvard University in public policy.

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