SSRC Staff

Jennifer Klot

Senior Advisor,
HIV/AIDS, Gender and Security

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E-mail: klot@ssrc.org
Phone: (718) 517-3654

Bio

Jennifer F. Klot is a Senior Adviser on Gender, Security and HIV/AIDS. In this capacity, she provides policy, evaluation and program support to multilateral agencies, foundations, governments and NGOs. In a partnership with the United Nations Development Program and the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women (UN Women), she lead the incubation and establishment of a new International Centre for Gender, Peace and Security (IC-GPS). Jennifer is an Adviser to the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS on issues relating to gender and security and drafted the UNAIDS and DPKO (2011) non-paper on The Responsibility of the Security Council in the Maintenance of International Peace and Security: HIV/AIDS and International Peacekeeping Operations. She was also team leader on gender and research capacity strengthening for the Justice and Security Research Program, a consortium based at the London School of Economics. She co-edited The Fourth Wave: Violence, Gender, Culture & HIV in the 21st Century (UNESCO, 2010), co-authored the Report of the AIDS, Security and Conflict Initiative (SSRC and Clingendael, 2009) and wrote the first background paper for the Peacebuilding Commission on Gender and Peacebuilding.

Prior to joining the Council, Ms. Klot was Senior Adviser on Governance, Peace and Security at the United Nations Development Fund for Women (now UN Women) where she directed the Independent Expert Assessment on Women, Peace and Security lead by Elisabeth Rehn and Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, and co-authored Graça Machel’s book on The Impact of Armed Conflict on Children (Hurst, 2001). Between 1994-2000, she served as a Policy Advisor on peace and security at the United Nations Children's Fund and directed the two year program of research and mobilization that produced the United Nations Report on the Impact of Armed Conflict on Children, chaired by Graça Machel.

Ms. Klot was a visiting scholar at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa, received a Master of Regional Planning from Cornell University and a Bachelors Degree in Political Science and Economics from Rutgers University. She is an editorial board member of Security Dialogue, an Advisory Committee member of the All Africa.com Global Health Initiative, Board Member of Iris House for Women and HIV/AIDS, and an Advisory Group Member of Humanity in Action.