Jessica J. Lee

Ms. Jessica J. Lee

RSEA AM '08
2020 RSEA Alumni Panelist
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Jessica J. Lee is a Senior Congressional Advisor at the Bureau of Legislative Affairs, U.S. Department of State. She was formerly a Senior Research Fellow on East Asia at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft. Lee is an expert in U.S. foreign policy toward East Asia, legislative affairs, and transpartisan coalition-building. She is a non-resident senior associate fellow at the Asia Pacific Leadership Network, a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a member of the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, and a 2021-2022 Arms Control Negotiation Academy Fellow with the Negotiation Task Force at Harvard University. Previously, she led the Council of Korean Americans (CKA), a national leadership organization for Americans of Korean descent. Prior to CKA, Lee was a Resident Fellow at the Pacific Forum and a senior manager at The Asia Group, LLC.

Lee began her career on Capitol Hill, where she served as a professional staff member handling the Asia region for the chairman of the House Committee on Foreign Affairs, and as a senior legislative assistant on international security and trade for a member of Congress on the Ways and Means Committee. She holds a B.A. in Political Science from Wellesley College and an A.M. in Regional Studies East Asia from Harvard University.

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