Laurie Schultz Heim

Laurie Schultz Heim joined the Institute after more than twenty years in the legislative process on Capitol Hill. Most recently, she served as senior policy adviser to Senator Jim Jeffords (I-Vt.), from 1989 to 2006. Her areas of responsibility included foreign policy, defense, arms control, veterans affairs and trade policy. Heim was Senator Jeffords’ personal representative to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee from 1991 to 1994 and staffed him on the Senate Appropriations Committee Foreign Operations Subcommittee from 1995 to 1996 and the Committee on Veterans Affairs from 1999 to 2006. Heim joined the staff of Congressman Jim Jeffords in 1983 and served as his legislative director from 1985 to 1988. She was employed by the U.S. Embassy in Moscow from September 1979 to May 1980.

Heim holds a B.A. from Bates College in Lewiston, Maine. She also earned a master’s in international affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs and a certificate from the Harriman Institute for the Advanced Study of the Soviet Union.