Jesse L. White, Jr.//
Adjunct Professor,
School of Government
Director,
Office of Economic & Business Development
University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Jesse L. White, Jr., is Director of the Office of Economic and Business Development at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and an Adjunct Professor in the School of Government. Prior to coming to UNC-Chapel Hill in January 2003, he headed the Appalachian Regional Commission and the Southern Growth Policies Board. White was also a Fellow at the Institute of Politics at Harvard University in 1990 and a private consultant in economic development. Jesse earned his B.A. at the University of Mississippi in political science and history, a master’s degree in international relations at the University of Sussex as Mississippi’s first Marshall Scholar, and his Ph. D. in political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Jesse is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and serves on the boards of RTS, Triangle Tomorrow, the Institute for Rural Journalism and Community Issues, the Association of Appalachian Colleges, the William F. Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, and the Rural School and Community Trust.