Jessica Eve Stern (born February 11, 1958) is an American scholar and academic on terrorism. Stern serves as a research professor at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University. Earlier she had been a lecturer at Harvard University. She serves on the Hoover Institution Task Force on National Security and Law.[1] In 2001, she was featured in Time magazine's series on Innovators.[2] In 2009, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on trauma and violence. Her book ISIS: The State of Terror (2015), was co-authored with J.M. Berger.

• PhD, Harvard University: Public Policy, 1992.
• MS, Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Technology Policy Program (Chemical Engineering), 1988.
• BS, Barnard College of Columbia University, Major: Chemistry. Minor: Russian. 1985.

Stern served on President Bill Clinton's National Security Council staff from 1994 to 1995 as the director for Russian, Ukrainian, and Eurasian Affairs. From 1998 to 1999, she was the Superterrorism Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; and from 1995 to 1996, she was a national fellow at Stanford University's Hoover Institution, where she is a member of the Task Force on National Security and Law. Stern was a postdoctoral analyst for Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory from 1992 to 1994, where she analyzed political developments in Russia that could put nuclear materials or fissile materials at risk for use by terrorists. Stern is a member of the Trilateral Commission and the Council on Foreign Relations. She was named a Council on Foreign Relations International Affairs Fellow, national fellow at the Hoover Institution, fellow of the World Economic Forum, and a Harvard MacArthur Fellow.

In 2009, she was a fellow at the Guggenheim Foundation,[3] the Yaddo Colony for the Arts,[4] the MacDowell Colony[5] and was also an Erikson Scholar at the Erik Erikson Institute.[6]

Stern is a research professor at the Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and Boston University.[7]

Stern was a lecturer on counter-terrorism and law at Harvard Law School[8] and Harvard Kennedy School from 1999 to 2016.

She has served on the advisory board of the American Bar Association Committee on Law Enforcement and National Security and the editorial boards of Current History and Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.

Stern is currently a fellow at the FXB Center for Health and Human Rights at the Harvard School of Public Health, and she is an advanced academic candidate at the Massachusetts Institute of Psychoanalysis.