Jessica Stern is a senior fellow in the Community Safety Evaluation Lab at and a research professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. She is a member of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on preventing nuclear terrorism. Dr. Stern is a recipient of the 2024 Harry Frank Guggenheim Distinguished Scholar award. She has taught courses on counterterrorism for over 20 years – at Boston University, Harvard, and CIA University. Her research has been funded by DHS, DOJ, NSF, NATO, MacArthur Foundation, among others. She is the author of five books on targeted violence. Stern served on President Clinton’s National Security Council Staff and as a postdoctoral fellow in intelligence at Livermore National Lab. She was included among seven “thinkers” in Time Magazine’s 2001 series profiling 100 innovators and was selected as a Guggenheim Fellow in 2009, a World Economic Forum Fellow from 2002-2004, an International Affairs Fellow in 1994, and elected to Sigma Xi, an engineering honors society, in 1986. She has a bachelor’s degree from Barnard College in chemistry, a master’s degree from MIT in technology policy (chemical engineering), and a doctorate from Harvard University in public policy. She is a 2016 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis. Please see her personal website here for link to her full CV.
