Helen Haislmaier, program coordinator, supports the office director, helps arrange and schedule campus events and meetings, and recruits interns for the MIT Washington Office.

Helen moved to the United States from London, England in 1990 and joined the MIT Washington Office shortly after it opened in 1991. She left in 1994 but returned again in 2002. During her time away from MIT, Helen was the program coordinator for the Middle East Studies Department at the Johns Hopkins University Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, worked on Richard Nixon’s only authorized biography, and had two sons.

Before leaving the UK, Helen served as the senior legislative assistant to an active member of the House of Lords, where she focused on British higher education policy, education reform, and foreign policy issues in Eastern Europe. Prior to that, she was the director of a pro-NATO grassroots organization: Women & Families for Defense.

Helen received her B.A. with honors in British politics from the University of Kent at Canterbury in England and is pursuing an M.A. in education from the Catholic University of America.