Jennifer Christie is Chief Diversity Officer and Vice President, Executive Recruitment of American Express Company. She is responsible for developing the company’s global diversity and inclusion strategy for more than 65,000 employees in 130 markets. She also leads all executive level recruitment for all business and staff groups worldwide.

As a leader in the company’s efforts to attract, hire, develop, and retain diverse talent and to create an engaging global workplace in which all people can succeed, Jennifer and her team work closely with senior executives and employees across the company on a wide variety of initiatives. They also provide strategic direction to the company’s travel and payment businesses to understand and engage the broadest base of customers worldwide.

Prior to joining American Express, Jennifer was a member of the Global Technology and Services practice at a leading executive search firm. She conducted numerous executive searches for corporate strategy and government relations roles and worked across a wide array of industries including financial services, consumer products, aerospace, defense and technology. Previously, Jennifer was a special assistant to the President of the United States in the Office of Presidential Personnel responsible for recruiting presidential appointees for management, legal, policy, legislative and external affairs, communications and diversity offices. Jennifer was also an associate at Booz Allen Hamilton in their organizational design and change management practice.

Jennifer received a master’s degree from The George Washington University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.