Jennifer M. Harris  Jennifer Michelle Harris is an academic, who studies United States foreign policy and economics. Harris' father is Dennis Harris, a judge and her mother is Karen N. (new Youngblood), a former staff lawyer. 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. In 2018, Harris became a Senior Fellow in Special Projects at William and Flora Hewlett Foundation.