Jessica Poh-Janrell

Topical expertise: Women’s Rights, Civil society participation in peacebuilding, Holistic approach to the WPS-agenda, Feminist Foreign Policy

Languages: Swedish, English and basic Spanish

Jessica Poh-Janrell works as an Advocacy Advisor at the Head Office of the Kvinna till Kvinna Foundation. Her work focuses on closing the policy gap and the implementation gap of the Women, Peace and Security Agenda and to ensure greater participation of local women’s rights organizations throughout the conflict cycle and in decision-making processes in conflict-affected countries. She works with women’s rights organizations in the South Caucasus, the Western Balkans, the Middle East, and several African countries.

Before joining Kvinna till Kvinna, Poh-Janrell worked as a policy coordinator at CONCORD Sweden where she led and coordinated Swedish Civil Society in their joint advocacy and monitoring work on Sweden’s Feminist Foreign Policy. Previously, Jessica worked in Brussels for the European Commission’s Directorate General for Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (DG ECHO), and at the EU liaison office of the German Foundation for World Population (DSW). At DSW Poh-Janrell spent a lot of time in East Africa and South Asia capacity building local civil society organizations focusing on Women’s Rights and Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights. She holds a master’s degree in International Humanitarian Action from Uppsala University and a bachelor’s degree in International Relations from Monash University, Melbourne.