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Jane Flegal

Social Scientist, University of California, Berkeley

Jane Flegal is a program officer for the environmental program at the Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust. She previously worked as a Senior Policy Analyst at the Energy Project of the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC). While at the BPC, she worked on federal energy innovation policy, both for the American Energy Innovation Council and for BPC’s Strategic Energy Policy Initiative. Additionally, she led the BPC’s work on climate engineering research and policy and staffed the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling.

Jane earned her PhD in the department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management at the University of California, Berkeley. Her research there examined contemporary dilemmas in energy and climate policy through the analytic lenses of STS, political science, and public policy.