Jennifer Pederson

Jennifer (Jen) Pedersen, PhD works at the intersection of politics and policy. Currently Senior Legislative and Policy Advisor to NDP Foreign Affairs Critic Heather McPherson, Jen has spent a decade advising Canadians Parliamentarians on Foreign Affairs and International Development policy. Her past roles include senior humanitarian policy advisor for a Canadian non-governmental organization and program manager on conflict resolution at a Brussels-based NGO. She holds a PhD in international politics from Aberystwyth University and has published on women and war, the arms trade, peace activism in Liberia, and tribal conflict and mediation in Yemen.

Jen’s first political job was working for Ed Broadbent’s campaign in Ottawa-Centre in 2004 and she holds fond memories of policy chats with Ed over Harvey’s hamburgers and Tim Hortons Old-Fashioned Plain Donuts.