Jehanne Henry is a human rights lawyer, researcher and advocate with a particular focus on armed conflicts and transitional justice. Between 2007 and 2020 she was a researcher and director in Human Rights Watch’s Africa division focusing on Sudan, South Sudan, and East Africa. She led numerous fact finding missions across the region, authored dozens of reports, opinion pieces and articles on human rights issues, and appeared in international media outlets.. From late 2020 - 2021 she served as an adviser in Sudan’s transitional government. She continues to work with Sudanese and international human rights groups in the wider Sahel, East, and Horn of Africa regions.
She is also a rostered expert with the Justice Rapid Response, a non-resident scholar at the Middle East Institute, and adjunct faculty in the Human Rights Program at Hunter College. Previously, Henry served with the UN, USAID, and NGOs in other conflict and post-conflict zones including Darfur, Kosovo and Cambodia. She also worked at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and clerked for a US federal judge in the Southern District of NY. She has a BA in Philosophy from Columbia College and a JD from the University of Texas School of Law.