Jennifer Windsor

Jennifer L. Windsor is the Chief Executive Officer of Women for Women International (WfWI), where she sets the strategic vision, mobilizes resources, and leads 550 staff across 11 international offices. For more than 20 years, Women for Women International has supported over 420,000 of the most marginalized women in countries affected by conflict and war to access the knowledge, skills, and resources they need to be catalysts for change in their lives and families. Prior to joining WfWI, Ms. Windsor served as Associate Dean for Programs in the School of Foreign Service (SFS) at Georgetown University. In addition to leading the SFS Women’s Leadership Initiative, she helped to create the Georgetown Initiative for Women, Peace and Security and served as its Interim Director. She also helped establish the SFS Masters in Global Human Development. From 2001 to 2010, Ms. Windsor served as Executive Director of Freedom House. During her tenure, she more than tripled the organization’s operating budget and expanded its programmatic reach to dozens of countries affected by conflict and human rights abuse in Africa, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the former Soviet Union. She initiated programs to support women’s rights in Jordan and family law reform in Kuwait and Bahrain and created a new assessment tool designed to measure the state of women’s rights in the Middle East. Under her leadership, Freedom House became a non-partisan voice for human rights and freedom around the world. Ms. Windsor holds a Master in Public Administration from the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Harvard University. She has been published in the New York Times and Washington Quarterly, and has made numerous media appearances.