Jennifer HelgesonJennifer F. Helgeson is a behavioral economist whose research focuses on community resilience and sustainable development. She co-directs the Knowledge, Learning, and Societal Change (KLASICA) international research alliance and serves on the Externa Research Evaluation Committee of the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, Japan. She holds adjunct positions at East Carolina University, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, and Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Previously, she was a Climate Change Adaptation Specialist at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development and has worked on environmental economics projects with Friends of the Earth Middle East and the Grameen Foundation in Uganda. A former Fulbright scholar, she completed her doctorate at the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment at the London School of Economics, with prior studies in environmental economics at the University of Oxford and in economics at Brandeis University. Read More Read Less