Kerri-Ann Jones

Kerri-Ann Jones
14th Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs
In office
August 20, 2009 – April 25, 2014
PresidentBarack Obama
Preceded byClaudia A. McMurray
Succeeded byMonica Medina
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy
Acting
In office
April 4, 1998 – August 3, 1998
PresidentBill Clinton
Preceded byJack Gibbons
Succeeded byNeal Francis Lane
Personal details
Born1954 (age 69–70)
EducationColumbia University (BS)
Yale University (MS, PhD)
Scientific career
FieldsBiochemistry
Institutions
ThesisCharacterization of the response to stress in yeast (Heat shock, NMR) (1985)
Doctoral advisorRobert G. Shulman

Kerri-Ann Jones (born 1954) was vice president of research and science at The Pew Charitable Trusts.[1] She is the former United States Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs at the U.S. State Department. Nominated by President Barack Obama in June 2009, she was sworn in on August 20 of that year.[2]

  1. ^ "Kerri-Ann Jones". www.pewtrusts.org. Retrieved 2017-04-21.
  2. ^ "Kerri-Ann Jones". Biographies. U.S. Department of State Bureau of Public Affairs. Archived from the original on 3 January 2013. Retrieved 3 January 2013.