Kerri-Ann Jones | |
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14th Assistant Secretary of State for Oceans and International Environmental and Scientific Affairs | |
In office August 20, 2009 – April 25, 2014 | |
President | Barack Obama |
Preceded by | Claudia A. McMurray |
Succeeded by | Monica Medina |
Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy | |
Acting | |
In office April 4, 1998 – August 3, 1998 | |
President | Bill Clinton |
Preceded by | Jack Gibbons |
Succeeded by | Neal Francis Lane |
Personal details | |
Born | 1954 (age 69–70) |
Education | Columbia University (BS) Yale University (MS, PhD) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Biochemistry |
Institutions | |
Thesis | Characterization of the response to stress in yeast (Heat shock, NMR) (1985) |
Doctoral advisor | Robert 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]