Jeannette Gaudry Haynie, PhD, is a career Marine Corps officer with a PhD in International Relations. A New Orleans native and a U.S. Naval Academy graduate, she is a Cobra attack helicopter pilot by trade. She earned her Master of Arts in Political Science from the University of New Orleans and her Doctorate in International Relations from The George Washington University while serving on the Joint Staff and in the Marine Corps Commandant’s think tank. Her academic research focuses on the intersections of gender, leadership, and security, and she has advised senior leadership on critical and creative thinking for warfighting effectiveness, served as a subject matter expert on the Women, Peace, and Security agenda, and developed the planning guidance for strategic talent management for warfighting effectiveness. She also conducted independent and original research on gender, warfighting, and critical/creative thinking for the Commandant and Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps.
Jeannette has taught courses in Gender and Conflict, International Relations, and Quantitative Methods. She served as Senior Fellow at nonprofit Women In International Security, is a member of the Presidential Leadership Scholars’ Class of 2019, and with her husband, founded and leads a co-ed youth leadership program built upon Marine Corps leadership principles. She is the Founder and Executive Director of the Athena Leadership Project, which seeks to elevate the stories of female veterans and conduct research into how gender-diverse teams and leadership impact national security.