Jacqueline Wittebrood (1966, Netherlands) currently works at the ICSS team on Global Fund issues and the Free Space Process.

She started working in the HIV/AIDS field in 1998. Before joining the ICSS team in 2006, she worked as a senior communications officer with Aids Fonds Netherlands and STOP AIDS NOW! (a joint initiative of Aids Fonds and the four major Dutch development agencies Hivos, ICCO, Cordaid and Oxfam/Novib). She developed overall communication strategies, coordinated corporate communications and initiated and coordinated mass media awareness campaigns at a national level, including setting up campaign monitoring and evaluation surveys with research institutions.

She has also worked with Dutch documentary makers on over a dozen productions that were broadcast on national television, aimed at creating awareness about what it means to live with HIV/AIDS in the Netherlands. More internationally oriented productions she initiated or collaborated on are the documentaries AIDS: The Woman’s Story, telling the stories of women and access to treatment in three continents, and Zuid-Afrika, snapshots van een sluipmoordenaar (South Africa, snapshots of an assassin) about orphans, streetkids and young prisoners and HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

Jacqueline has been involved in many fundraising activities, working closely with the fundraising departments of Aids Fonds and STOP AIDS NOW! and supporting their efforts to raise money for the national and international fight against HIV/AIDS.

As an advisor on media strategies, she was involved with the national safe sex campaign, (developed and carried out by the STI Foundation on behalf of the Ministry of Health) and the first Dance4Life campaign in the Netherlands, aimed at mobilizing young people in the fight against HIV/AIDS (www.dance4life.com).

Jacqueline studied at the University of Amsterdam and Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, and holds a Master’s degree in English Language and Culture. In addition, she completed several specialist courses on communications and a Masterclass on creating public support for international cooperation and sustainable development.