Jessica P. Einhorn

Jessica Einhorn became dean of the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University, on June 1, 2002. Dr. Einhorn, the first SAIS graduate to serve as dean, is known internationally for her knowledge of global capital markets, public finance and portfolio risk management.

Most recently she served as a consultant in the Washington office of Clark & Weinstock, a firm that specializes in strategic communication and public affairs consulting. In August 1999, Dr. Einhorn concluded her career of nearly 20 years of service with the World Bank. In the wake of the Asian financial crisis, from 1998 to 1999, she spent a year as a visiting fellow at the International Monetary Fund. From 1996 to 1998, she was managing director of the World Bank, where she was in charge of the financial management of the World Bank and its activities in resource mobilization from the public and private sectors. She assumed this position after serving as the vice president and treasurer of the bank, a position she held since 1992.

Prior to joining the World Bank, Dr. Einhorn held positions at the U.S. Treasury, the U.S. State Department and the International Development Cooperation Agency of the United States.

Currently, she serves as a director of the Peterson Institute for International Economics, the Center for Global Development, and the National Bureau of Economic Research. She is a former trustee of the German Marshall Fund and the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, and former director of the Council on Foreign Relations. In the private sector, she is director of Time Warner, chair of the global advisory board of J.E. Robert Cos. and former director of Pitney Bowes.

Author of Expropriation Politics, Dr. Einhorn received her B.A. in 1967 from Barnard College, Columbia University, M.A. in international affairs in 1970 from SAIS and Ph.D. in politics in 1974 from Princeton University. She also has studied at the London School of Economics and as a Fulbright Scholar in Caracas, Venezuela. From 1977 to 1978, she was at the Brookings Institution on a Rockefeller Foundation fellowship to study international bank lending. During 1991, she spent four months as a visiting fellow at the Institute for International Economics. In 1996, she completed the Advanced Management Program at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business Administration.

Dr. Einhorn, a native of New York City, resides in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Robert Einhorn.

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