Jennifer Pearl

Jennifer Pearl is the Policy Director for Interagency Strategy at the U.S. National Science Foundation. In this capacity, she develops and advances interagency strategy, manages NSF's participation in White House interagency policy committees, develops policy positions for the agency and serves as an advisor to the NSF Director and chief executives. Pearl serves as a mentor to NSF staff in both formal and informal capacities. 

Previously, she served at NSF in the Directorate for Engineering, Division of Mathematical Sciences, the Directorate for Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and the Office of International Science and Engineering. She has also served as the Director of the Science & Technology Policy Fellowships program at the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Pearl has held positions at George Mason University, the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine, and Rice University. She served as an American Association for the Advancement of Science Science and Technology Policy Fellow at the National Science Foundation and as an NSF/NATO Postdoctoral Fellow at the Université du Québec à Montréal. Pearl earned her doctorate in mathematics in the field of symplectic geometry from the State University of New York at Stony Brook and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from Duke University.<