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12 Facts About Jessica Stern

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Jessica Eve Stern was born on February 11,1958 and is an American scholar and academic on terrorism.

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Jessica Stern serves on the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law.

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Jessica Stern served on President Bill Clinton's National Security Council staff from 1994 to 1995 as the director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs.

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Jessica Stern was a postdoctoral analyst for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1992 to 1994, where she analyzed political developments in Russia that could put nuclear materials or fissile materials at risk for use by terrorists.

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Jessica Stern is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations.

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Jessica Stern was named a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, national fellow at the Hoover Institution, fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a Harvard MacArthur Fellow.

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Jessica Stern was a lecturer on counter-terrorism and law at Harvard Law School and Harvard Kennedy School from 1999 to 2016.

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Jessica Stern has served on the advisory board of the American Bar Association Committee on Law Enforcement and National Security and the editorial boards of Current History and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

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Jessica Stern is currently a fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, and she is an advanced academic candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis.

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Berger; Jessica Stern authored Denial: A Memoir of Terror, Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill, and The Ultimate Terrorists.

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Jessica Stern has published articles on terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.

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Jessica Stern received recognition from the Federal Bureau of Investigation for her efforts against international terrorism.