Jennifer Curtin

My name is Jennifer Curtin and I am Associate Professor (Reader) of Politics and Public Policy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. I gained my PhD from the ANU's Public Policy Program (aka the Crawford School) and returned to NZ in 2006. In 2012 I took over the coordination of Auckland's Masters of Public Policy overseeing a 200% growth in enrolments since that time. In January 2017 I was charged with establishing a new Public Policy Institute at the University of Auckland which will house our MPP, host visiting scholars and practitioners, and produce regionally and globally relevant policy research outputs. My research has focused on feminist policy actors, institution building and gender equality outcomes, in comparative perspective. I am currently the Chair of IPSA RC 19 (Gender Politics and Policy) and in 2015 co-wrote an application for funding from IPSA for the Milan ICPP. There I coordinated two gender equality panels and will do so again in Singapore (both co-sponsored with RC 19). I would relish the opportunity to contribute to the growth of IPPA's reach in the Pacific and the global south, through my connections with IPSA and other gender policy networks.