diff --git a/implementation/jwt-auth/pom.xml b/implementation/jwt-auth/pom.xml
index 8eac6e0a..675c490e 100644
--- a/implementation/jwt-auth/pom.xml
+++ b/implementation/jwt-auth/pom.xml
@@ -72,6 +72,10 @@
       <groupId>io.smallrye</groupId>
       <artifactId>smallrye-jwt-common</artifactId>
     </dependency>
+    <dependency>
+      <groupId>io.smallrye.converters</groupId>
+      <artifactId>smallrye-converters</artifactId>
+    </dependency>
     <dependency>
       <groupId>org.jboss.logging</groupId>
       <artifactId>jboss-logging</artifactId>
diff --git a/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/DefaultJWTCallerPrincipal.java b/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/DefaultJWTCallerPrincipal.java
index c30b2bb5..5ed9e6c7 100644
--- a/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/DefaultJWTCallerPrincipal.java
+++ b/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/DefaultJWTCallerPrincipal.java
@@ -16,15 +16,20 @@
 package io.smallrye.jwt.auth.principal;
 
 import java.util.Collection;
+import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.HashSet;
 import java.util.LinkedHashSet;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
+import javax.json.JsonObject;
+
 import org.eclipse.microprofile.jwt.Claims;
 import org.jose4j.jwt.JwtClaims;
 import org.jose4j.jwt.MalformedClaimException;
 
+import io.smallrye.converters.api.Converter;
 import io.smallrye.jwt.JsonUtils;
 
 /**
@@ -34,6 +39,7 @@
  */
 public class DefaultJWTCallerPrincipal extends JWTCallerPrincipal {
     private final JwtClaims claimsSet;
+    private Map<Class<?>, Converter<?>> converters = Collections.emptyMap();
 
     /**
      * Create the DefaultJWTCallerPrincipal from the parsed JWT token and the extracted principal name
@@ -52,6 +58,11 @@ public DefaultJWTCallerPrincipal(String tokenType, JwtClaims claimsSet) {
         this(getRawToken(claimsSet), tokenType, claimsSet);
     }
 
+    public DefaultJWTCallerPrincipal(String tokenType, JwtClaims claimsSet, Map<Class<?>, Converter<?>> converters) {
+        this(getRawToken(claimsSet), tokenType, claimsSet);
+        this.converters = converters;
+    }
+
     public DefaultJWTCallerPrincipal(JwtClaims claimsSet) {
         this("JWT", claimsSet);
     }
@@ -166,9 +177,15 @@ protected Set<String> filterCustomClaimNames(Collection<String> claimNames) {
 
     protected void replaceClaimValueWithJsonValue(String name) {
         try {
-            final Object object = claimsSet.getClaimValue(name, Object.class);
+            Object object = claimsSet.getClaimValue(name, Object.class);
             if (!(object instanceof String)) {
-                claimsSet.setClaim(name, JsonUtils.wrapValue(object));
+
+                object = JsonUtils.wrapValue(object);
+                if (object instanceof JsonObject && converters.containsKey(JsonObject.class)) {
+                    object = converters.get(JsonObject.class).convert(object.toString());
+                }
+
+                claimsSet.setClaim(name, object);
             }
         } catch (MalformedClaimException e) {
             PrincipalLogging.log.replaceClaimValueWithJsonFailure(name, e);
diff --git a/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/DefaultJWTCallerPrincipalFactory.java b/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/DefaultJWTCallerPrincipalFactory.java
index c308d2e7..75103ad6 100644
--- a/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/DefaultJWTCallerPrincipalFactory.java
+++ b/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/DefaultJWTCallerPrincipalFactory.java
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 import org.jose4j.jwt.consumer.JwtContext;
 
 /**
- * A default implementation of the abstract JWTCallerPrincipalFactory that uses the Keycloak token parsing classes.
+ * A default implementation of the abstract JWTCallerPrincipalFactory.
  */
 public class DefaultJWTCallerPrincipalFactory extends JWTCallerPrincipalFactory {
 
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ public JWTCallerPrincipal parse(final String token, final JWTAuthContextInfo aut
 
         JwtContext jwtContext = parser.parse(token, authContextInfo);
         String type = jwtContext.getJoseObjects().get(0).getHeader("typ");
-        return new DefaultJWTCallerPrincipal(type, jwtContext.getJwtClaims());
+        return new DefaultJWTCallerPrincipal(type, jwtContext.getJwtClaims(), authContextInfo.getConverters());
     }
 
 }
diff --git a/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/JWTAuthContextInfo.java b/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/JWTAuthContextInfo.java
index c15f26d3..21146449 100644
--- a/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/JWTAuthContextInfo.java
+++ b/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/auth/principal/JWTAuthContextInfo.java
@@ -20,10 +20,12 @@
 import java.security.interfaces.RSAPublicKey;
 import java.util.Collections;
 import java.util.List;
+import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Set;
 
 import javax.crypto.SecretKey;
 
+import io.smallrye.converters.api.Converter;
 import io.smallrye.jwt.KeyFormat;
 import io.smallrye.jwt.algorithm.KeyEncryptionAlgorithm;
 import io.smallrye.jwt.algorithm.SignatureAlgorithm;
@@ -64,6 +66,7 @@ public class JWTAuthContextInfo {
     private Set<String> requiredClaims;
     private boolean relaxVerificationKeyValidation = true;
     private boolean verifyCertificateThumbprint;
+    private Map<Class<?>, Converter<?>> converters = Collections.emptyMap();
 
     public JWTAuthContextInfo() {
     }
@@ -121,6 +124,7 @@ public JWTAuthContextInfo(JWTAuthContextInfo orig) {
         this.requiredClaims = orig.requiredClaims;
         this.relaxVerificationKeyValidation = orig.relaxVerificationKeyValidation;
         this.verifyCertificateThumbprint = orig.verifyCertificateThumbprint;
+        this.converters = orig.converters;
     }
 
     @Deprecated
@@ -406,6 +410,7 @@ public String toString() {
                 ", groupsSeparator='" + groupsSeparator + '\'' +
                 ", relaxVerificationKeyValidation=" + relaxVerificationKeyValidation +
                 ", verifyCertificateThumbprint=" + verifyCertificateThumbprint +
+                ", converters=" + converters +
                 '}';
     }
 
@@ -424,4 +429,12 @@ public boolean isVerifyCertificateThumbprint() {
     public void setVerifyCertificateThumbprint(boolean verifyCertificateThumbprint) {
         this.verifyCertificateThumbprint = verifyCertificateThumbprint;
     }
+
+    public Map<Class<?>, Converter<?>> getConverters() {
+        return converters;
+    }
+
+    public void setConverters(Map<Class<?>, Converter<?>> converters) {
+        this.converters = converters;
+    }
 }
diff --git a/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/config/JWTAuthContextInfoProvider.java b/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/config/JWTAuthContextInfoProvider.java
index 29b08b2b..f849a6cd 100644
--- a/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/config/JWTAuthContextInfoProvider.java
+++ b/implementation/jwt-auth/src/main/java/io/smallrye/jwt/config/JWTAuthContextInfoProvider.java
@@ -17,17 +17,23 @@
 package io.smallrye.jwt.config;
 
 import java.io.IOException;
+import java.util.Collections;
+import java.util.HashMap;
+import java.util.Iterator;
+import java.util.Map;
 import java.util.Optional;
 import java.util.Set;
 
 import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;
 import javax.enterprise.context.Dependent;
+import javax.enterprise.inject.Instance;
 import javax.enterprise.inject.Produces;
 import javax.inject.Inject;
 
 import org.eclipse.microprofile.config.inject.ConfigProperty;
 import org.eclipse.microprofile.jwt.config.Names;
 
+import io.smallrye.converters.api.Converter;
 import io.smallrye.jwt.KeyFormat;
 import io.smallrye.jwt.SmallryeJwtUtils;
 import io.smallrye.jwt.algorithm.KeyEncryptionAlgorithm;
@@ -46,6 +52,9 @@ public class JWTAuthContextInfoProvider {
     private static final String NONE = "NONE";
     private static final String DEFAULT_GROUPS_SEPARATOR = " ";
 
+    @Inject
+    Instance<Converter<?>> converters;
+
     /**
      * Create JWTAuthContextInfoProvider with the public key and issuer
      *
@@ -526,9 +535,25 @@ Optional<JWTAuthContextInfo> getOptionalContextInfo() {
         contextInfo.setRequiredClaims(requiredClaims.orElse(null));
         contextInfo.setRelaxVerificationKeyValidation(relaxVerificationKeyValidation);
         contextInfo.setVerifyCertificateThumbprint(verifyCertificateThumbprint);
+
+        Map<Class<?>, Converter<?>> converterMap = createConverterMap();
+        contextInfo.setConverters(converterMap);
         return Optional.of(contextInfo);
     }
 
+    private Map<Class<?>, Converter<?>> createConverterMap() {
+        if (converters != null && converters.isResolvable()) {
+            Map<Class<?>, Converter<?>> map = new HashMap<>();
+            for (Iterator<Converter<?>> it = converters.iterator(); it.hasNext();) {
+                Converter<?> converter = it.next();
+                map.put(String.class, converter);
+            }
+            return map;
+        } else {
+            return Collections.emptyMap();
+        }
+    }
+
     @Produces
     @ApplicationScoped
     public JWTAuthContextInfo getContextInfo() {
diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 8a7102e1..bd1a5605 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -42,6 +42,7 @@
     <version.jose4j>0.7.8</version.jose4j>
     <version.resteasy>4.6.0.Final</version.resteasy>
     <version.mokito>3.11.1</version.mokito>
+    <version.smallrye.converters>1.0.0</version.smallrye.converters>
   </properties>
 
   <licenses>
@@ -115,6 +116,12 @@
         <version>${version.jose4j}</version>
       </dependency>
 
+      <dependency>
+        <groupId>io.smallrye.converters</groupId>
+        <artifactId>smallrye-converters</artifactId>
+        <version>${version.smallrye.converters}</version>
+      </dependency>
+
       <!-- Dependencies provided by the project -->
       <dependency>
         <groupId>io.smallrye</groupId>