Jennifer A. Faust is a political economist with a broad academic and professional background in the private sector and public service. She began her career as a policy and government relations researcher. Her public service includes work with the U.S. Peace Corps/Haiti and the Department of Defense. She has been deployed with multilateral teams for the United Nations Mission/Kosovo, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), and the Organization for American States (OAS). She studied at the Université de Pau in France and graduated from The George Washington University (honors) and from the London School of Economics and Political Science where she was recognized with distinction honors. She is trilingual and her area of expertise is in international development.