Jennifer Jacquet

Jennifer Jacquet is a Professor of Environmental Science and Policy at the Rosenstiel School of Marine, Atmospheric, and Earth Science at the University of Miami, and affiliated faculty with the Abess Center for Ecosystem Science and Policy. She is also Associate Research Director of the Climate Social Science Network (CSSN) at Brown University. From 2012–2022, she worked in the Department of Environmental Studies at New York University. She has authored more than fifty refereed research articles as well as two books: Is Shame Necessary? (Pantheon, 2015) and The Playbook (Pantheon, 2022).

Professor Jacquet has a B.A. in economics from Western Washington University, M.S. in environmental economics from Cornell University, and Ph.D. in natural resource management and environmental studies from the University of British Columbia where she worked with zoologist Daniel Pauly and the Sea Around Us Project. She was a grand prize winner of the USAID Wildlife Crime Tech Challenge, a recipient of a Pew Fellowship in Marine Conservation, and she received an Alfred P. Sloan research fellowship. She works on issues as the intersection of animals and environmental protection, including fisheries, aquaculture, the wildlife trade, and the climate politics of animal food production. She is a member of the executive committee of the Center for Environmental and Animal Protection at NYU, the advisory board for the Sea Around Us, and the advisory council for the National Food Museum. She has has supported numerous efforts in favor of stronger protections for cephalopods.