Jennifer Mergy

Jennifer Mergy provides economic policy direction for U.S. Mission Canada and leads the economic section at the U.S. Embassy in Ottawa. A career member of the U.S. Department of State’s Senior Foreign Service, she most recently served as International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Director at U.S. Embassy Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Jennifer’s prior assignments include Director and Senior Advisor to the Deputy Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Resilience at the U.S. National Security Council in the Executive Office of the President and Senior Advisor in the State Department’s Bureau of Energy Resources. She had multiple postings in the Middle East and Africa covering a range of economic issues such as development, economic security, commercial diplomacy, and counterterrorism programing. Jennifer was also a Department of State Transatlantic Diplomatic Fellow to France, covering migration, labor, and health affairs.

Jennifer holds bachelor’s degrees from the University of California, Davis, a master’s degree from the University of London, and a PhD summa cum laude from the University of Paris. Her languages are French and Arabic. She hails from San Francisco.