Margaret Jackson

Margaret Jackson is a senior associate (non-resident) with the Trustee Chair in Chinese Business and Economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). She is currently a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations. She served most recently as a senior counselor at the U.S. Department of Commerce’s International Trade Administration, leading policy on U.S.-China commercial engagement and advancing U.S. clean technology trade and industrial policy objectives. She joined Commerce as a White House Fellow, placed in the secretary’s Office of Policy and Strategic Planning. Previously, she was the deputy director for climate and advanced energy at the Atlantic Council; a Council on Foreign Relations–Hitachi International Affairs Fellow at the Institute of Energy Economics, Japan; and a Fulbright scholar at Tsinghua University’s Institute for Energy, Environment, and Economy in Beijing. She began her career as a U.S. Navy officer based in the Indo-Pacific region. She holds an MA from Georgetown University and a BS from the United States Naval Academy.