Region(s): Africa
Focus area(s): Indigenous Peoples’ rights, Indigenous land rights, Africa, advocacy, programme coordination and documentation
Working languages: Danish, English, French

Marianne Wiben Jensen is our in-house expert on land rights in Africa and team coordinator of IWGIA’s programme on land rights and territorial self-governance. Marianne manages IWGIA’s land rights projects in Africa. As an expert member of the Working Group on Indigenous Populations/Communities of the African Commission on Human and Peoples' Rights (ACHPR), she has been working closely with the African Commission on the issues of Indigenous Peoples for many years. As a Cultural Sociologist, graduated from the University of Copenhagen, she is specialised in human rights and women's right in Africa.