Jessica Alexander has over 12 years experience working in humanitarian affairs across Africa, Asia, and the Middle East for the United Nations and various NGOs. Professor Alexander is former a Fulbright Scholar who received the award to research child soldiers in Sierra Leone in 2006. She has received a Master of Public Health and a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, focusing her research on accountability in humanitarian action. She is the author of "Chasing Chaos: My Decade In and Out of Humanitarian Aid."
