Jeffrey A. Nesbit

Jeffrey A. Nesbit has been director of the Office of Legislative and Public Affairs at the National Science Foundation since June 2006.

His prior positions include:
 * President of The Shiloh Group—a strategic communications firm founded in 1992
 * Head of communications for Citizens for a Sound Economy
 * Associate Commissioner for Public Affairs at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for David A. Kessler ;
 * Director of Communications to former Vice President Dan Quayle at the White House ;
 * U.S. Senate press secretary
 * Special assistant for public affairs to Secretary of Labor Elizabeth Dole in 1989
 * Washington journalist from 1981 to 1987, for Knight-Ridder
 * Reporter for newspapers in Virginia and South Carolina from 1980–1981

He is also a novelist.