Former Associate Administrator for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs
Jessica Lee was NNSA's Associate Administrator for Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs.
Previously, she served as a Senior Congressional Advisor at the Bureau of Legislative Affairs at the Department of State. In that role, she led State Department leadership’s congressional engagements related to the East Asia and the Pacific region.
Ms. Lee began her career in Washington in 2008 at the House of Representatives, where she served as a policy advisor on the House Foreign Affairs Committee and for a senior Democrat from Washington State. Other experiences include leading a national Korean American nonprofit organization focused on civic engagement across federal, state, and local levels and analyzing U.S.-DPRK nuclear diplomacy.
She is a term member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a 2021-2022 Arms Control Negotiation Academy Fellow with the Negotiation Task Force at Harvard University.
Ms. Lee earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from Wellesley College and a master’s degree in Regional Studies-East Asia from Harvard University.