Jennifer M. Harris

Jennifer Michelle Harris is a scholar, who studies United States foreign policy and economics, and a former US government official.

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.

Education Harris has a BA degree in economics and international relations from Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina.

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

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.

Harris served as special assistant to the president and senior director, international economics on the National Security Council and National Economic Council (from 2021-23). She then returned to the Hewlett Foundation.

Opinions

Harris is known for her opposition to Neoliberalism and preference for greater government involvement in strengthening the US economy.

For example, she has argued that the government needs to invest in infrastructure, child care, and education. These facilitate economic growth. She also opposes the concentration of power in the hands of very large corporations, supporting a "strong" antitrust policy.

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

Publications