Jenna H. Ben-Yehuda is executive vice president of the Atlantic Council and former president and chief executive officer of the Truman National Security Project and the Truman Center for National Policy. She earned multiple Superior and Meritorious Honor Awards during her twelve years at the US Department of State where she served in a range of intelligence and policy roles in the Western Hemisphere, including serving as senior military advisor to US Northern Command, US Southern Command, and US Special Operations Command.
She is the founder of the Women’s Foreign Policy Network, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum’s Global Futures Council on US National Security, as well as serves on the advisory boards of the George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs, the Leadership Council for Women in National Security, the Partnership for Public Service, and GLOBSEC.