Jessica Einhorn serves on the Board of Directors at BlackRock, Inc. She is the former Dean Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at the John Hopkins University. Prior to becoming Dean, she was a consultant at Clark & Weinstock, a strategic consulting firm. Einhorn also spent nearly 20 years at the World Bank, concluding as Managing Director in 1998. Between 1998 and 1999, Einhorn was a Visiting Fellow at the International Monetary Fund. Prior to joining the World Bank in 1978, she held positions at the U.S. Treasury, the U.S. State Department and the International Development Cooperation Agency of the United States. She currently serves as a Director of both the Peterson Institute for International Economics and the National Bureau of Economic Research. As of July 2012, Ms. Einhorn is resident at The Rock Creek Group in Washington, D.C., where she is a Senior Advisor and longstanding member of The Rock Creek Group Advisory Board. Einhorn holds a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton University, an M.A. in international relations from SAIS, and a B.A. from Barnard College.