Jennifer Gordon

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Jennifer T. Gordon (@JenniferThea11) is managing editor and senior fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center, where she has oversight of the center’s research and publications and manages the center’s nuclear energy policy portfolio. Jennifer runs the Global Energy Center’s Nuclear Energy and National Security Coalition (NENSC) and the Center’s Women Leaders in Energy Fellowship (WLEF). From 2016 to 2018, Jennifer was a senior energy policy analyst at National Journal’s Network Science Initiative. Jennifer has served as a CIA political analyst and has also worked as a freelance writer and TV commentator. Jennifer earned her PhD in 2014 from Harvard’s History Department and Center for Middle Eastern Studies, after completing a dissertation on early Shia political thought. In 2004, Jennifer graduated magna cum laude from Wellesley College, with a major in Middle Eastern Studies and a minor in English.