Jen Krimm

Jen Krimm is a senior-level advisor and manager who has spent her career preventing terrorism and promoting US values and US policy objectives at home and abroad. Through a mix of government, non-profit, and private sector roles, she has specialized experience in strategy, partnerships, policy development/advice, security, training, strategic communications, and management in the US and nearly 20 countries (Iraq, Yemen, South Sudan, Liberia, Kosovo, etc.). Jen is currently a Senior Transition Advisor for USAID's Office of Transition Initiatives (OTI) bullpen. From 2020-2022 she served as the Senior Stabilization Advisor and Donor Outreach Specialist for USAID/Yemen (XLA ISC). Prior to USAID/Yemen, Jen worked primarily with US Government (USG) implementing partners (the National Democratic Institute and others) designing, managing, advising on, and/or delivering political programming on different levels–from training members of parliament in Albania, to designing political programming in Yemen, to working with local South Sudanese CSOs on peace process advocacy. From 2008-2011 she worked in senior political, policy, and communications positions in the US Congress and in American domestic politics. In addition to senior advisory and management roles, in her career she has focused on political affairs/analysis, preventing/countering violent extremism, stabilization, political transition, peace, conflict, democracy, governance, gender, and political/strategic communications, among other technical areas. Jen has worked in nearly 20 countries, including Yemen, Iraq, Slovakia, Kosovo, Albania, Liberia, South Sudan, Nepal, Armenia, Kuwait, etc., and she has lived in Yemen, South Sudan, Tunisia, Jordan, Kuwait, the United Kingdom, and Qatar, where she was a Fulbright Fellow. She has a bachelor’s degree in Government from Dartmouth College and a master’s degree in Terrorism and Political Violence from the University of St Andrews (US equivalent: master's in Counterterrorism). Jen, her husband, and their daughter are based in both Amman, Jordan, and Lexington, Kentucky, USA.