A research associate at the University of Oxford/Department of Politics and International Relations, where his current research focuses on cybersecurity in relation to sovereignty and strategic autonomy, as well as on AI and ethics.

Visiting professor at Rijeka University, Senior Advisor to the European Policy Center, Chief Adviser to the European Institute of Technology/Health, and Supervisory Board member of the eGovernance Academy in Estonia.

Former Director at the European Commission for Digital Society, Trust & Cybersecurity. Responsible for policy, legislation and innovation in cybersecurity, e-privacy, digital health and ageing, e-government / e-ID, and smart cities/mobility/energy. Member of the Cabinet of European Commissioner Liikanen. Participated in the European Commission’s Impact Assessment Board (nowadays Regulatory Scrutiny Board) which scrutinises policy and legislative proposals.

Departmental Lecturer in Global Governance and Diplomacy at the University of Oxford, where she lectures on Diplomacy and International Law, Digital Diplomacy, and Gender and Diplomacy. Her current research and PhD (2017) from the University of Oxford focused on the emerging discipline of Digital Diplomacy.

Jennifer produced the first edited volume on Gender and Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (Routledge).

Served on the advisory council for the Centre for Feminist Foreign Policy, having been chosen as one of the speakers for TEDxOxford, where she gave a talk entitled The Road Less Travelled: Why we need a Feminist Foreign Policy.

Served as a diplomatic attaché to Ireland’s Permanent Mission to the United Nations (New York), European External Action Service to the Kingdom of Cambodia, and Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade Headquarters during Presidency of the Council of the European Union.

Associate Professor in Diplomatic Studies at the University of Oxford and Head of the Oxford Digital Diplomacy Research Group. He also serves as a Faculty Fellow at the Center on Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California and as a Professorial Lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy of Vienna.

His research focuses on the impact of digital technology on the conduct of diplomacy with a focus on strategic communication, digital influence and methods for countering digital propaganda.

Authored and edited six books, including the twin volumes on Countering Online Propaganda and Violent Extremism: The Dark Side of Digital Diplomacy (2018) – listed in the Best New International Relations Books To Read In 2019 - and Digital Diplomacy: Theory and Practice (2015). He is currently working on a new project “Diplomacy in the Age of Artificial Intelligence: Evolution or Revolution?” examining the potential transformative impact of AI in consular affairs, crisis communication, public diplomacy, and international negotiation

Professor, author and cartoonist in global risk & prediction at NYU's MA International Relations Program and risk expert in the 2020-2021 Global Future Council at the World Economic Forum; she also consults on risk via the world's first crowdsourced consultancy Wikistrat and other networks

With fellowship support from the LSE's Institute of Global Affairs, she published her first book Future World Order in 2019 which won two global awards (15% of profits goes to Syrian refugee youth in Jordan's Za'atari camp via charity Peace & Sport); its sequel The COVID-19 Effect is out in Nov 2020 (50% of profits will go to the WHO's COVID-19 Solidarity Response Fund). Her 2016 political comic book, The Global Kid, won five awards (all profits to education charities) and is being developed into a VR/AR political comic book for tweens and a political comic book for adults.

She is a Jordanian-born Pakistani who grew up in the Middle East (Jordan, Saudi Arabia), Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia), Europe (UK, Greece) and the US. And she is a social scientist trained at Brown (BA), Columbia (MA) and the LSE (MSc, PhD).