Stacy Jackson (2010)
Fellowship Year: 2010
Academic Background: University of California - Berkeley - PhD 2012- (Energy & Resources)
Stacy Jackson is a PhD candidate in the Energy & Resources Group at UC Berkeley and a Graduate Student Research Assistant in Carbon & Climate Science at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Her research focuses on near-term climate change science and mitigation policy, with an emphasis on short-term vs. long-term mitigation pathways and decadal high-latitude feedback effects. She also works to increase public knowledge of climate science and has recently been appointed to the Council of the American Geophysical Union (AGU).
Stacy’s academic training has been highly interdisciplinary, spanning the sciences, engineering, policy, and business. She holds an MS in Energy & Resources from UC Berkeley, an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School, and a BSE in Operations Research from Princeton University. Prior to graduate school and her second career in climate science, she spent over a decade in corporate finance and strategy, most recently as a Finance Director for NIKE, Inc.
Expertise: Energy & Climate Change