Jennifer M. Harris

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.{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/fashion/weddings/jennifer-harris-sasha-post.html |title=Jennifer Harris, Sasha Post |work=The New York Times |date=August 28, 2016 |access-date=December 14, 2018}}

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

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

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.{{cite book|url=https://www.cfr.org/book/war-other-means|title=Jennifer M. Harris|work=Council on Foreign Relations|access-date=March 30, 2023}}

In 2018, Harris became a Senior Fellow in Special Projects at William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.{{cite web |url=https://hewlett.org/people/jennifer-harris/ |title=Jennifer Harris |publisher=Hewlett.org |access-date=December 14, 2018}} As of 2018, Harris is also a nonresident senior fellow in Foreign Policy at Brookings Institution.{{cite web |url=https://www.brookings.edu/experts/jennifer-m-harris/ |title=Jennifer M.Harris |publisher=Brookings Institution |access-date=December 14, 2018}}

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.{{cite book|title=War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft: Ambassador Robert D. Blackwill, Jennifer M. Harris: 9780674737211: Amazon.com: Books|isbn=978-0674737211|last1=Blackwill|first1=Robert D.|last2=Harris|first2=Jennifer M.|date=11 April 2016|publisher=Harvard University Press }}{{cite web|url=http://www.cfr.org/diplomacy-and-statecraft/war-other-means/p37532|title=Robert D. Blackwill and Jennifer M. Harris: War by Other Means: Geoeconomics and Statecraft - Council on Foreign Relations|author=Robert D. Blackwill|work=Council on Foreign Relations}}

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).{{cite news|url=https://www.politico.com/newsletters/transition-playbook/2021/03/22/meet-the-new-jared-bernstein-492200 |title=Meet the new Jared Bernstein |publisher=Politico |last=Meyer |first=Theodoric |date=March 22, 2021 |access-date=March 30, 2023}}{{Cite news |last=Stockman |first=Farah |date=2024-06-17 |title=Opinion {{!}} The Queen Bee of Bidenomics |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/17/opinion/jennifer-harris-bidenomics.html |access-date=2024-06-17 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}{{cite news | url=https://hewlett.org/people/jennifer-harris/ |title=Jennifer Harris |publisher= |last= |first= |date=n.d. |access-date=August 26, 2024}} She then returned to the Hewlett Foundation.

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.

{{Cite news |last=Harris |first=Jennifer |date=2024-08-25 |title=Kamala Harris Begins to Sketch a New Economic Vision |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/opinion/kamala-harris-economy-trade-antitrust.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur |access-date=2024-08-26 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=}}

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

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|isbn= 9780674737211

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• {{cite journal |title=America Needs a New Economic Philosophy. Foreign Policy Experts Can Help |website=ForeignPolicy.com |date=February 7, 2020 |volume= |issue= |pages= |url=https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/02/07/america-needs-a-new-economic-philosophy-foreign-policy-experts-can-help/|last1=Harris |first1=Jennifer |last2=Sullivan |first2=Jake |s2cid= }}
• {{cite journal |title=Kamala Harris Begins to Sketch a New Economic Vision|journal=New York Times |date=August 25, 2024 |volume= |issue= |pages= |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/25/opinion/kamala-harris-economy-trade-antitrust.html?smid=tw-nytopinion&smtyp=cur |last1=Harris |first1=Jennifer |s2cid= }}

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• [https://www.foreignaffairs.com/authors/jennifer-m-harris List of articles by Jennifer M. Harris at Foreignaffairs.com]
• [https://www.cfr.org/report/writing-new-rules-us-china-investment-relationship Writing New Rules for the U.S.-China Investment Relationships. Report by Harris at CFR.org]

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