Jennifer Hendrixson White

Jennifer Hendrixson White is a visiting scholar in the American Statecraft Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. Her research focuses on Congress’s role in U.S. foreign policy and national security.

From 2010 to 2025, Hendrixson White served in senior positions across the U.S. government on Asian security, economic, and technology issues, at the State Department, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations, the U.S. House of Representatives, and the U.S. Senate, as well as the Pentagon, U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, and the National Security Council. As a senior advisor to two former chairmen of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and a former chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, she helped shape major bipartisan legislation, including the AUKUS security partnership, the 20-year renewal of the Compacts of Free Association, and sanctions on North Korea in Title III of the Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA) of 2017. She was the author of the Burma Unified through Rigorous Military Accountability (BURMA) Act in 2017 and stewarded its ultimate passage in 2022. She also drafted and negotiated legislation to eliminate double taxation for U.S. and Taiwanese businesses and facilitate investment in the United States, including in advanced semiconductors.

In 2025–26, Hendrixson White was a distinguished visiting fellow at Perry World House at the University of Pennsylvania and a research fellow at SAIS Europe, and she taught at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and the Krieger School of Arts and Sciences. She also founded and leads Scalare Advisors, a Washington-based geopolitical risk and national security advisory firm where she focuses on China, the Indo-Pacific, dual-use technology, and supply chain vulnerability.

Hendrixson White holds an M.A. from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where she focused on China, Southeast Asia, and international economics.