Marie Harf has two decades of varied experience in the U.S. federal government, higher education, media, and politics. She currently works at the University of Pennsylvania, where she serves as executive director of Perry World House -- the University's on-campus hub and think tank for global affairs -- and teaches on religion and the global future. Since 2017, Harf has also been an on-air Democratic commentator for Fox News. Previously, she worked as senior advisor for strategic communications to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and deputy spokesperson for the U.S. Department of State, as the foreign policy director on Barack Obama’s 2012 re-election campaign, and as a Middle East analyst and spokesperson at the Central Intelligence Agency. She has also held senior roles at Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and for Congressman Seth Moulton’s political organization. Harf holds a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Indiana University with concentrations in Jewish Studies and Russian and Eastern European Studies, and a master’s degree in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia.
Marie Harf
