Kirthi Jayakumar is a lawyer, feminist researcher, and WPS practitioner. She founded and runs The Gender Security Project, which works on the WPS Agenda and Feminist Foreign Policy through research, reportage, and documentation. She obtained her MA in Peace and Conflict Studies at CTPSR, Coventry University, and previously at UPEACE, Costa Rica. She is a member of the Working Group for the Every Woman Treaty and part of the Advisory Working Group for the Beijing+25 process.