Jacqueline H. Wilson

Jacqueline H. Wilson is a senior program officer in the Institute’s Education and Training Center/International. She joined the Institute with more than 20 years of service in the U.S. Air Force and Air Force Reserves. Her military career has included assignments in analysis, training and counterterrorism. She served overseas in the Middle East and Africa and was a Middle East foreign area officer.

Following the events of September 11, 2001, she was assigned to the U.S. embassy in Nairobi, serving in the defense attaché and Kenya-U.S. liaison offices. During this period, she augmented the U.S. delegation to the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, and hosted Sudanese peace talks, contributing to the development of the verification and monitoring team. She was also an international observer for the Kenyan elections of 2002. Wilson has worked as a special assistant on the Maryland governor’s staff as well as a lobbyist in Annapolis. She has been an adjunct instructor for Chapman University and a reserve faculty member of the Joint Military Intelligence Training Center at the Defense Intelligence Agency.

She earned a master of science degree in strategic intelligence with Middle East emphasis from the Joint Military Intelligence College and holds a master’s in defense administration from Northern Michigan University. She is currently a doctoral student at Georgetown University, studying traditional conflict resolution in Sudan.