Klara Henderson
Policy Analyst
BA; MCom
Klara Henderson obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Sydney, majoring in Political Science, and subsequently completed a Master of Commerce degree. She worked at Accenture for eight years, focussing on strategic and policy projects with Australian public sector clients. In 1998 Klara began work as a Strategic Development Project Manager at the Australian Trade Commission where she conducted pricing reviews and developed organisation-wide key performance indicators. Since 2002 Klara has worked in East Africa on HIV/AIDS projects, including conducting a needs assessment for HIV interventions in Uganda’s border regions; acting as a consultant to AusAID to assess the economic impact of HIV/AIDS in East Timor, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea; and consulting for UNDP Asia-Pacific to develop a needs assessment user guide to cost national HIV/AIDS strategic plans in the region. Klara joined the Health Policy Division in July 2007 as a Policy Analyst. She is currently completing a PhD in international health policy at the University of Sydney, which examines the development of HIV policy in East Timor to assess the impact of donor funding structures on policy outcomes.