Jennifer Brant

About

Jennifer Brant provides policy analysis and strategic advice to companies, NGOs, and inter-governmental organizations on market access and regulatory issues, notably in the areas of technological innovation, healthcare, cybersecurity, intellectual property, and trade. Since 2010, she has been an independent consultant based in Switzerland.

Jennifer advises leading innovators from the private sector, along with NGOs and UN agencies such as the WHO and WIPO, on enabling policies for innovation, knowledge-sharing, healthcare delivery, and technology diffusion. She is on the Advisory Board of the African Women Entrepreneurship Collective (AWEC) and the Advisory Board of the Kent Interdisciplinary Research Center on Cybersecurity. She is an advisor to the Geneva Impact Hub on the Sustainable Development Goals. She is also a member of the International Gender Champions network.

Previously, Jennifer worked on WTO dispute settlement at Sidley Austin LLP in Geneva, on global trade policy matters for Oxfam in Washington, D.C., and Geneva, and for Gianni Origoni & Partners in Milan. She has advised a broad range of clients, including WIPO, WHO, WTO, ILO, Doctors without Borders, Oxfam, IFPMA, Qualcomm, General Electric, P&G, Pfizer, Merck and Millipore Sigma, International Chamber of Commerce, Qualcomm, Cyber Readiness Institute, Microsoft, J&J, Center for Global Enterprise, Open Society Institute, and sovereign clients.

Jennifer has an M.A. in International Development and Economics from Johns Hopkins SAIS, an M.A. in International Law from the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, and a B.A. in International Relations from UCLA, all with the highest honors. An American and Swiss national, she lives in Commugny, Switzerland, with her two daughters and too many pets.