Jessica Evans is the Senior Researcher/Advocate for International Financial Institutions at Human Rights Watch. Jessica was formerly the researcher on the Philippines in the Asia division. She has investigated various political killings, torture, and abductions in the Philippines and meets regularly with Philippine government officials to encourage them to implement systemic changes to stop the killings and hold perpetrators accountable.

Prior to joining Human Rights Watch in 2009, she worked as a practicing attorney, based in Perth, Western Australia and as the attorney general's principal policy officer where she ran his law reform agenda. She has lived and worked in Fiji where she investigated human rights abuses by the military government following the December 2006 coup d'état.  Evans received her law and arts (politics and international studies) degrees from the Murdoch University and her master's degree in international human rights from the Columbia University School of Law.