Ben Jackson

Senior Project Support Officer at the Institute of Development Studies and Author

Brighton, England, United Kingdom

About

Experience

  • Institute of Development Studies (Full-time · 6 yrs 11 mos)
    • Senior Project Support Officer
      Jan 2022 - Present · 4 yrs 7 mos

    • Project Support Officer
      Sep 2019 - Jan 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Regular Contributor at The Best of Africa
    Jan 2016 - Jan 2020 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    Regular contributor to the Best of Africa website. My writing focuses on issues of politics, conflict and justice within the continent. I have written pieces on the Central African Republic, Ertirea, Gambia, Cameroon, Guinea and Kenya.

  • Account Executive/Research Assistant at Corporate Comms Shop Ltd
    Jan 2018 - Feb 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • SAFORB Project Assisstant at CSW
    Oct 2017 - Jan 2018 · 4 mos

    Working with the South Asia team on the Defend the Defenders project. Work included editing videos, research, editing (written and website) as well as compiling campaign tweets and Facebook posts.

  • Advocacy Intern at CSW
    Oct 2016 - Jul 2017 · 10 mos

    Internship with the sub-Saharan Africa team. Conducted research in order to produce reports, breifings, blogs and press releases. Main countries of research were the Central African Republic and Sudan, with some work on Kenya and Nigeria. Attended events at UK Parliament, The European Union (various agencies), Chatham House and RUSI.