Guest Speaker

Jennifer Davis is a career U.S. diplomat who is currently serving as the Coordinator for the Afghanistan War Commission for the U.S. Department of State, following her tenure as the Chief of Staff to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. Previously, she served as the U.S. Consul General in Istanbul, Turkey, as the Executive Assistant to U.S. Secretaries of State Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, Special Assistant to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, a Watch Officer in the State Operations Center, and the Director of the Orientation Division for the Department of State. She also served tours in Colombia, Brussels (USNATO), and Mexico City. She is a Distinguished Graduate of the U.S. National War College, where she received the George Kennan Award for Excellence in Strategic Writing, and has taught, facilitated, and served as an executive coach in the Leadership and Management School of Foreign Service Institute. Before joining the Foreign Service, Jennifer was a corporate attorney specializing in media and banking law and clerked for the Honorable Judge James C. Fox in the Eastern District of North Carolina. She has a B.A. with distinction and J.D. with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an LL.M. in international law from the University of Oxford in England.