Jean Ard
Jean Ard is the executive assistant to the director of the Baker Institute, Ambassador David M. Satterfield. In this capacity, she provides a full range of support — overseeing special projects, prioritizing initiatives, and executive communications. Ard serves as primary contact for the Director’s Office to internal and external constituencies and manages the institute's Board of Advisors. Before joining the institute, Ard worked at Rice University’s School of Social Sciences and spent over a decade directing government relations programs in Washington, DC.
Ard earned her bachelor’s degree from John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio.
Victoria Jupp
Victoria Jupp is the policy assistant to the director of the Baker Institute, Ambassador David M. Satterfield. Jupp serves as researcher and communications manager for the Director’s Office. She coordinates partnerships and events with government, academic, nonprofit, and industry stakeholders and serves as a production lead for the institute’s podcast series. Prior to joining the Baker Institute, Jupp served as a higher education administrator designing undergraduate co-curricular service-learning and research programming and formed public-private partnerships with corporate and nonprofit community members in Houston.
Jupp graduated summa cum laude with a bachelor’s degree in communications from the University of Houston and received a Master of Public Policy from the Hobby School of Public Affairs. Her research explores executive branch policymaking, U.S. monetary policy, drug policy, and harm-reduction approaches to public health.