Jennifer Klein

Jennifer Klein is the Ann F. Kaplan professor of professional practice at Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs and Director of the Ann F. Kaplan Women’s Initiative at the Institute of Global Politics.

During the Biden Administration, Klein was an Assistant to the President and the Director of the White House Gender Policy Council. Klein advised the president and vice-president on domestic and foreign policy issues, including women’s health and reproductive rights, gender-based violence, women’s economic security, and women’s human rights and democratic participation. During the Obama administration, Klein served as a Deputy and Senior Advisor in the Office of Global Women’s Issues at the US Department of State. During the Clinton Administration, she worked at the White House in a dual appointment as First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton’s Senior Domestic Policy Advisor and a Special Assistant to the President on the Domestic Policy Council.

A graduate of Brown University and Columbia Law School, spending her third year at Yale Law School, Klein began her career at Simpson Thacher & Bartlett. She taught as an adjunct professor at the Georgetown University Law Center, as a senior visiting fellow in international and public affairs at the Watson Institute at Brown University, and as a visiting fellow at the Center for Global Legal Challenges at Yale Law School.  She is the Chair of the Clinton Policy Institute at the Clinton Foundation, and currently serves on the board of the National Women’s Law Center. She has previously served on the Brown University Women’s Leadership Council, the board of International Center for Research on Women, and the Global Institute for Women’s Leadership Advisory Council at King’s College London.

Education

• BA, Brown University
• JD, Columbia University