Key Qualifications

Steven L. B. Jensen has specialized in HIV/AIDS and human rights, human rights education and contemporary history and politics. He has broad knowledge on national AIDS responses, UN reform, harmonization and alignment. He has been involved in project design, national strategic planning and generating strategic information and has worked extensively with national human rights institutions.

Steven L. B. Jensen has worked within the development field initially as Head of Section in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Department of Southern Africa) and for the Joint UN Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS). Most recently he has been the HIV/AIDS Programme Manager for the Danish Institute for Human Rights (DIHR).
As a trained historian he has prior to these assignments worked as a research assistant at the Danish Centre for Holocaust and Genocide Studies and has also worked as research assistant on projects on the history and politics of public health in Denmark in the 19th and 20th Century.

He has undertaken missions to a number of African, Asian and Eastern European countries and has lived in New Zealand, Scotland and Switzerland.

Main Research Interests
Steven L. B. Jensen historical research interests have centered on 20th century history, especially genocide studies, social movements in the 1960s and 1970s, exile politics and HIV/AIDS. He has authored or edited several scholarly works in these areas.

Professional Experience