Jane Flegal

Jane Flegal is the Senior Director for Industrial Emissions at the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ), where she is responsible for developing and advancing policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, promote technological advancement, and support job creation in the manufacturing and industrial sectors.

Jane comes to CEQ from her role as a Program Officer in the Environment program at the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, where she leads U.S. grantmaking to combat climate change and support a clean energy transition.

Jane is a social scientist, whose research has focused on the intersections of science, innovation, and social outcomes, particularly in the context of climate change. She has published on public participation and engagement in science and technology policy, equity concerns as they relate to climate technologies, and responsible research and innovation, including in Nature Climate Change and Annual Review of Environment and Resources.

Jane was senior program officer for the environment program at The Bernard and Anne Spitzer Charitable Trust in New York, where she developed and executed a grantmaking strategy on U.S. climate. She is also an affiliated faculty member at the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University and a Research Affiliate at the Institute for Science, Innovation, and Society at the University of Oxford. She previously worked as a senior policy analyst on the energy team of the Bipartisan Policy Center, as a research consultant to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and to the California Council on Science and Technology.

Jane holds a doctorate in environmental science, policy, and management from the University of California at Berkeley and a bachelor’s degree in environmental studies and politics from Mount Holyoke College.