Profile - Dr. Heike Jensen

Dr. Heike Jensen

Dr. Heike Jensen is a postdoctoral researcher and lecturer at the department of Gender Studies of Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany. Her research and teaching foci are media theories, media politics and media strategies, women's movements and women's organizations, and globalization and global governance. She received her education at the Free University (Berlin, Germany), the University of Minnesota (Minneapolis, USA), Brown University (Providence, USA), the International Women's University 2000 (Hamburg, Germany) and Humboldt University, where she obtained her doctorate.

Dr. Jensen's volunteer work is dedicated to promoting women's rights. She is a member of Terre des Femmes e.V., the NRO-Frauenforum, and the Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID). In the WSIS process, she has worked with the German Civil Society Coordinating Committee for WSIS, the WSIS Gender Caucus and the NGO Gender Strategies Working Group. She was a civil society member of the German governmental delegation to the Geneva Summit. In October 2004, Dr. Jensen became the Western European member of the Steering Committee of the WSIS Gender Caucus.

Contact: dr.heike.jensen@web.de