Jill Baggerman is a program officer for USIP’s Afghanistan and Central Asia team. She supports analysis for the Ground Truth project and leads the team’s emerging research and programming on transboundary waters.

Baggerman has worked on issues at the intersection of peace, the environment and inclusiveness since 2009 — with research and implementation experience in both post-conflict settings and the water sector.

She previously served on USIP’s learning, evaluation and research team and spent time as an editor with the Wilson Center’s environmental change and security program. Baggerman also worked on transboundary water cooperation with the U.N. Water Convention and UNOPS’s Water Supply and Sanitation Collaborative Council. She also has a background in local reconciliation efforts from her work with the African Center for Constructive Resolution of Disputes and with local NGOs including in South Sudan, Uganda, Liberia and the state of Bihar in India.

She holds a master’s in global policy studies from the University of Texas with a specialization on water policy in fragile contexts; a master’s in development, sustainability and peace from U.N. University in Tokyo, Japan; and a bachelor’s in cultural anthropology from the University of Texas. Baggerman has authored several publications on topics related to water and peace, including “Simmering Glacial Geopolitics” and “Tethering to Human Rights in the Pushes and Pulls of Human Mobility.”