Kerri-Ann Jones
Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs-designate (since June 2009)
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Jones began her government career in India, where she helped build U.S. partnerships with researchers there for the U.S. Agency on International Development (U.S. AID). More than two decades later, Jones may return to this effort in a large-scale way as assistant secretary of state for oceans and international environmental and scientific affairs.
If confirmed, Jones will help the State Department combat climate change, reduce the spread of infectious diseases and build relationships between scientists around the world. To do this, she will call on her 29 years of experience merging science and public policy. The biophysics and biochemistry Ph.D. has worked for the White House Office for Science and Technology and with the National Institutes of Health.
In Their Own Words
"Sustained investment in science and technology underlies our ability to succeed in high priority missions,” Jones said in 1999.
- Career History: Consultant (2005 to 2009); Director, Office of International Science and Engineering at the National Science Foundation (2002 to 2005); Director, Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (1999 to 2002)
- Alma Mater: Barnard College, B.A.m 1975; Yale Universiyt, Ph.D., 1985
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