Jennifer Park Stout

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Jennifer Park Stout
박지영
Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (Public Diplomacy)
In office
2010–2012
Preceded byJohn J. Norris, Jr.
Succeeded bySusan N. Stevenson
Personal details
Born1976 (age 47–48)[1]
Washington D.C.[1]
Alma materJames Madison University (BA), George Washington University (MA)

Jennifer Park Stout (born in 1976 as Park Ji-young; 박지영[1][2]) is an American diplomat and policy expert known for being the Deputy Assistant Secretary for East Asian and Pacific Affairs during the Obama administration.[3][4]

Early life and education[edit]

Stout was born in Washington D.C.; she is the great-granddaughter of Park Eun-sik.[5] She has a B.A. from James Madison University and an M.A. in International Affairs from the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University.[3] She is married and has two children and lives in Virginia.[6]

Career[edit]

Stout has served as senior advisor and director of Senate affairs in the Bureau of Legislative Affairs at the State Department. She worked on Capitol Hill for 11 years, as a legislative aide to then-senator Joe Biden on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee (1998), with Senator Patrick Leahy on the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and also as foreign-policy advisor to Senator Jim Webb, and Representative Jim Moran.[3][7][8]

She was chief of staff to Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs Richard Stengel. Before that, she was special assistant to the president in the White House Office of Legislative Affairs. From 2010 to 2012, she served as deputy assistant secretary in the East Asian and Pacific Affairs Bureau at the State Department. After that job she served as vice president of international government relations for MetLife from 2012 to 2013.[9] In March 2015 she was appointed to be deputy chief of staff to Secretary of State John Kerry.[3]

In 2017 she was hired by Snap, Inc. to be their head of global public policy; in 2021 she was listed as their vice-president of global public policy and head of their Washington, DC office.[10][11][12] She served on the board of governors of the East-West Center from 2018 through 2021.[13]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c 김균미; 유대근 (May 20, 2011). "제니퍼 박 스타우트 美국무부 부차관보 '혈육의 나라' 찾다". Seoul Shinmun. p. 2. Archived from the original on May 22, 2011. Retrieved May 22, 2011.
  2. ^ "독립운동가 며느리 "그 욕만 하면 日여자들이 …"". JoongAng Ilbo. February 26, 2012. Archived from the original on September 21, 2020. Retrieved September 21, 2020.
  3. ^ a b c d "Stout, Jennifer Park". U.S. Department of State. January 20, 2009. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  4. ^ "독립운동가 며느리 "그 욕만 하면 日여자들이 …"". 중앙일보 (in Korean). February 26, 2012. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  5. ^ Kim, Gyun-mi; Yoo, Dae-geun (May 20, 2011). "Jennifer Park Stout, Assistant Assistant Secretary of State for a 'Land of Blood'". Seoul Newspaper. Archived from the original on May 6, 2022. Retrieved May 6, 2022.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  6. ^ "Madison Center External Advisory Board". JMU. March 9, 2022. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  7. ^ Rozen, Laura (April 14, 2009). "Names". Foreign Policy. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  8. ^ Epstein, Kayla (September 18, 2020). "Big Tech is in the hot seat in Washington. Here are the 19 most influential people shaping policy for the industry from the nation's capital". Business Insider. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  9. ^ Heath, Alex (August 22, 2017). "Snap's Evan Spiegel Doesn't Do Everything Himself. These Are His Top Executives". Inc.com. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  10. ^ "Snap Inc hires Jennifer Park Stout as head of global policy". Yahoo News. January 19, 2017. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  11. ^ McCormick, Erin (December 23, 2021). "Killed by a pill bought on social media: the counterfeit drugs poisoning US teens". the Guardian. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  12. ^ "College of Business ~ C~Suite Speaker Series". JMU. January 4, 2022. Retrieved May 6, 2022.
  13. ^ "On the Move". Honolulu Star-Advertiser. January 28, 2021. p. B4. Retrieved May 6, 2022.