Minna Jaffery-Lindemulder is a Technical Advisor with Strategy for Humanity. In her previous work at the New Lines Institute for Strategy and Policy, she helped build start-ups and nonprofits from the ground up, in the process managing strategic communications and operations for mission-driven organizations. She has extensive experience managing external relationships to produce high-quality analysis for policymakers; developing new analytical products for targeted audiences; undertaking geopolitical forecasting; and managing national and globally focused networks; and establishing processes and standard operating procedures. She also has developed multi-party tabletop exercises and simulations, including ones on the semiconductor industry in Taiwan; oil and critical mineral supply chains in the Middle East and Africa; and attacks on infrastructure in Ukraine and Russia. Her past clients have included universities, NGOs, and affinity groups.
Minna also has extensive experience writing, conducting, and analyzing in-depth interviews. She facilitated events and discussions with government officials and civil society actors, and helped draft memos on Middle East policy. She has a focused specialization in South Asian-Middle Eastern relations and has deep ties to the Arabian Gulf and Pakistan.
Minna is a member of the NextGen Initiative at Foreign Policy for America, where she has served as the Middle East working group co-chair. She is a native speaker of English and Urdu and also speaks basic Arabic. She received her M.A. in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia University, where her thesis focused on U.S.-Pakistani-Saudi relations in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She has a B.A. in English and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago.
Minna also has extensive experience writing, conducting, and analyzing in-depth interviews. She facilitated events and discussions with government officials and civil society actors, and helped draft memos on Middle East policy. She has a focused specialization in South Asian-Middle Eastern relations and has deep ties to the Arabian Gulf and Pakistan.
Minna is a member of the NextGen Initiative at Foreign Policy for America, where she has served as the Middle East working group co-chair. She is a native speaker of English and Urdu and also speaks basic Arabic. She received her M.A. in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies from Columbia University, where her thesis focused on U.S.-Pakistani-Saudi relations in the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. She has a B.A. in English and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago.
