Jacqueline Klopp is an Associate Research Scholar at the Center for Sustainable Urban Development at Columbia University.
Her research focuses at the intersection of sustainable land use, development, democratization, violence, and corruption. 
Klopp is the author of articles for Africa Today, African Studies Review, African Studies, Canadian Journal of African Studies, Comparative Politics,
Forced Migration Review, World Policy Review, and the International Peace Academy among others.
She is currently working on a book on Land, Power and Poverty in Kenya

Klopp received her B.A. from Harvard University in Physics and her Ph.D. in Political Science from McGill University.

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