Sana Jaffrey is a scholar of politics with over 15 years of experience in conducting quantitative and qualitative research in Indonesia. During her appointment at the World Bank (2008-2013), she led the implementation of the National Violence Monitoring System (NVMS) data project in Indonesia. Jaffrey later served as the director of Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC) in Jakarta (2021-2022). Her research has been published in several academic journals, including Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development and Journal of East Asian Studies. Jaffrey is currently a Research Fellow at the Australian National University's Department of Political and Social Change and a nonresident scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.