Previously, Heather was a faculty member at the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she remains a senior fellow at the Mack Center for Technological Innovation. During the 2010-2011 academic year, Heather was awarded an ASA/NSF/BEA Fellowship for her research at the Bureau of Economic Analysis on the foreign direct investment of U.S. MNCs. Heather received a BA in Political Science from McGill University in Canada, an M.Sc. in international and European politics from Edinburgh University in Scotland and a PhD in strategy & organization and international business from the Anderson School at UCLA.