Jill A. Schuker (The Hon.)

Jill A. Schuker is President of JAS International Group, an international strategic communications, issue management, message, media and counseling firm based in Washington, D.C. She has worked especially with both governments and societies in transition on a range of civil society, reform, policy and leadership issues. She served in the Clinton Administration as Special Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs and Senior Director for Public Affairs at the National Security Council. Earlier in the Administration she served as head of Public Affairs for Secretary of Commerce Ronald H. Brown. She previously served in government as Counselor for Press and Public Affairs at the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, and as Deputy Spokeswoman at the U.S. Department of State. She also was Executive Director of the bipartisan New England Congressional Caucus on Capitol Hill. 

Ms. Schuker has published numerous articles on public diplomacy, civil liberties and security issues and served as an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is also a Fellow at the University of Southern California Center for Public Diplomacy. She was both a Ford Foundation and European Community Fellow, and has served as an official international election observer.  Additionally, Ms. Schuker is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Board member of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and on the Public Diplomacy Council as well as a member of other non-profit Boards, Advisory Boards, and Councils including the International Women’s Media Foundation and the Women’s Commission for Refugee Women and Children. 

She received her B.A. in government from Skidmore College and her M.A. from Tufts University.