Claudia J Ford

Claudia J. Ford has thirty years' experience in international development management and training, and has worked in most of the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, East and Southern Africa. Her specialties include health, family planning, HIV/AIDS, democratic institution building, and women's empowerment. Ford is currently conducting research on transformation and gender equity, household economics, gender, poverty, and community-based...See more

Claudia J. Ford has thirty years' experience in international development management and training, and has worked in most of the countries of Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East, South Asia, South East Asia, East and Southern Africa. Her specialties include health, family planning, HIV/AIDS, democratic institution building, and women's empowerment. Ford is currently conducting research on transformation and gender equity, household economics, gender, poverty, and community-based natural resource management. She is a senior lecturer at the University of the Witwatersrand. Ford is the founder and director of The Princess Trust, a South African charity that deals with the issue of infant rape and child sexual abuse. Ford lives with her family in Johannesburg, South Africa. See less