Featured Researcher: Jessica P. Einhorn

Jessica P. Einhorn, Dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the Johns Hopkins University, is NBER's newest Director-at Large. She holds a B.A. from Barnard College, an M.A. in international affairs from SAIS, and a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University.

Einhorn became Dean of SAIS on June 1, 2002. Before that she spent nearly 20 years at the World Bank, as vice president and treasurer from 1992-6, and as managing director from 1996-8. After she left the World Bank, she was a consultant in the Washington Office of Clark & Weinstock, a firm specializing in strategic communication and public affairs consulting. She has also held positions at the IMF, the U.S. Treasury, the State Department, and the International Development Cooperation Agency of the United States.

Currently, she serves as a trustee for the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and as a director of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Institute for International Economics, and the Center for Global Development. She also is a member of the board of directors of Pitney Bowes Inc., and chair of the global advisory board of J.E. Robert Cos. She is a member of the executive committee of the Trilateral Commission and a former trustee of the German Marshall Fund.

Einhorn lives in Washington, D.C. with her husband, Robert Einhorn, former Assistant Secretary of State for non-proliferation and presently Senior Advisor in the International Security Program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). They enjoy hiking and skiing with their extended family, and often travel together for both work and recreation.