Office of Policy and Program Support, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), US Department of State

Jennifer Nupp is Senior Program Analyst, Office of Policy and Program Support, in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA), providing analysis of program policy, conducting research on the various J-Visa categories, and formulating regulations (22 CFR part 62) for private sector exchange programs. For almost ten years, she directed the exchange program division of the International Institute, Graduate School, U.S. Department of Agriculture, which included managing the Fulbright Teacher Exchange program under a cooperative agreement with the U.S. Department of State, and giving oversight to a number of other exchange programs, including the International Visitor Leadership Program. From 2001-2005, she served as a Member and then Chair of Arlington County, Virginia’s Citizens Advisory Committee on English for Speakers of Other Languages. From 1997-2001, she worked in the areas of international advisory council relations, inter-country communications, and new country development for the International Secretariat of the worldwide exchange organization Youth for Understanding. She was principal researcher on a Ford Foundation U.S.- EU relations project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, conducted economic policy research in Germany under a grant from the German Academic Exchange Service and later, for the German Bundestag, and was a Research Fellow at the Brookings Institution and the Harvard University Center for European Studies.  She is a former Fulbright grantee to the University of Bonn, Germany.