About Jen Duncan
Jennifer Duncan
Africa Program Director
Jennifer Duncan has worked in international development for more than 15 years, with an emphasis on land and housing rights. Her experience includes project management; drafting and analysis of law, policy and regulations; development of strategies for rule of law and advocacy around land and housing rights; situational assessment and design and sequencing of responsive interventions; and research, writing and publishing on land and housing-related issues. She has focused on gender issues and women’s rights to land and housing throughout her career. Ms. Duncan has worked intensively over the past eighteen months on a number of projects in support of Kenyan land sector reforms.
Duncan has previously conducted policy work and field research on land issues in China, Georgia, Mexico, Moldova, Mongolia, Romania, Russia, Tajikistan, and Thailand. She has also lived and worked in Costa Rica. In addition to her international experience, she has worked with socio-economic development and legal issues among minority groups within the US, including migrant farm worker communities in California and the Makah Nation in Washington State. Duncan earned her J.D. from the University of Washington and her B.A. with honors in International Politics and Economics from Middlebury College.
