Jill Schuker
(Hon.) Jill A. Schuker is President of JAS International, a global advisory, analysis, and policy planning firm with a special emphasis on issues dealing with governance, public diplomacy, political risk, and strategic communications. She has served as a consultant for The World Bank, UNESCO, Vital Voices Global Partnership, and Global Communicators, among a range of other multi-laterals and global entities. From 2009-2015 she served as Head of Center/North America for the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Washington Center, one of four global centers reporting to the Secretary General at the OECD's Paris HQ. She has served as Special Assistant to the President (Clinton) for National Security Affairs and Senior Director at the National Security Council, Deputy Communications Director at the White House, head of Press and Public Affairs at the U.S. Department of Commerce, Counselor for Press and Public Affairs/USUN, and Deputy Spokeswoman at the State Department. On Capitol Hill, she was Executive Director of the New England Congressional Caucus working with Speaker Thomas (Tip) P. O’Neill Jr.. She has taught at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, American University, and George Washington University. She also was a European Community Fellow, a Ford Foundation Fellow, and a non-resident Public Diplomacy Fellow at the University of Southern California. She is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and has served as an official international election observer, Advisory Council Member of the Women in Public Service Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, a Founding Member of the Women’s Refugee Commission, and a Board member and Chair of the Governance Committee at the Sargent Shriver Center on Poverty Law, among other invited and chosen commitments. She has appeared in national and international publications with published Op Eds on national security policy, public diplomacy, multi-lateral institutions—present architecture and 21st century challenges. She also has addressed many global and national forums, including attending Davos. Ms. Schuker has her M.A. degree from Tufts University with thesis direction and coordination at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and a B.A. degree from Skidmore College as well as being the honoree of the college’s Distinguished Achievement Award.