About

Jennifer Charlton is a social media strategist and communications associate at the Consulate General of Switzerland in New York. She was hired in 2012 by the Swiss Federal Department of Foreign Affairs to launch a social media strategy as part of an e-diplomacy pilot project. Previously, Jennifer worked at a social media analytics startup in San Francisco. She began her career at an independent creative advertising agency in New York and has experience working abroad in Paris and Shanghai.

A native of the Washington DC area, Jennifer has always had an interest in the confluence of government and technology. She was a speaker at SXSW2013 on Digital Diplomacy and curates a blog on Diplomacy in the Digital Age. She is also the founder of the Digital Diplomacy Meetup and actively meets with foreign governments to explore how innovative technologies can be used as a tool to aid public diplomacy. She can be found on Twitter @Jen_Charlton.