Jennifer Bond

Jennifer Sue Bond is on assignment to the Council on Competitiveness from the National Science Foundation and serves as the vice president of international affairs. She is the former director of the Science & Engineering Indicators Program at the National Science Foundation. For the past two years, she worked for Senator Joseph Lieberman as an expert on education policy. Bond previously worked as the senior international policy analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and held research positions at MIT, the World Bank, the Board on Science, Technology and International Development at National Academy of Sciences, and was the director of the Science Policy Unit at the Brazilian Space Research Institute.

During the past decade, she has been a United States representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the vice chair of OECD's National Experts on Science, Technology and Industry Indicators (NESTI). She also has worked with the EU on several issues, including the Community Innovation Surveys, Public Attitudes Towards Science and Technology, and Mega-Science Issues. She has been on the editorial board of the APEC/PECC Science and Technology Profile and the Ibero- and InterAmerican Network on Science and Technology Indicators (RICYT) and is on the International Advisory Council for the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Bond holds a Bachelor of Arts from Stanford University in international affairs/political science and a master’s degree in science, technology and public policy from George Washington University. She speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese; has studied and worked in France and Brazil; and has traveled and lectured extensively in Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia. She is a member and fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences.