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Jesse Reynolds

Jesse Reynolds is an expert in international environmental policy, particularly regarding emerging technologies. He has worked extensively on the governance of solar geoengineering (or “solar radiation modification”) and carbon dioxide removal, two sets of technologies to reduce climate change and its risks. He is the author of The Governance of Solar Geoengineering: Managing Climate Change in the Anthropocene (Cambridge University Press, 2019). Dr. Reynolds presently works for the Degrees Initiative, a nonprofit organization that helps put developing countries at the center of the solar geoengineering conversation. Prior to that, he was executive secretary of the Climate Overshoot Commission, a group of independent, diverse, high-level individuals, and an Emmett / Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy at the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Reynolds has degrees from Tilburg University, The Netherlands (partially as a Fulbright Fellow, US Department of State); the University of California, Berkeley (as a US Environmental Protection Agency Science-to-Achieve Results Fellow); and Hampshire College.

Positions

  • present2023

    Chief of Staff

    The Degrees Initiative

  • present2021

    Principal

    Divided Sky Research and Consulting

  • 20232022

    Executive Secretary

    Global Commission on Governing Risks from Climate Overshoot

  • 20232022

    Senior Policy Officer

    Paris Peace Forum

  • 20212018

    Emmett / Frankel Fellow in Environmental Law and Policy

    Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the Environment
    School of Law
    University of California, Los Angeles

  • 20212018

    Research affiliate

    Harvard’s Solar Geoengineering Research Program
    Harvard University

  • 20212017

    Associate researcher (2018-2021)
    Assistant professor (2018)
    Post-doctoral researcher (2017)
    Research funding coordinator(2017-2018)

    Utrecht Centre for Water, Oceans, and Sustainability Law
    Faculty of Law, Economics, and Governance
    Utrecht University

  • 20172010

    Lecturer(2017)
    Post-doctoral researcher (2014-2016)
    Research funding coordinator (2014-2016)
    Ph.D. candidate (2010-2014)

    Department of European and Public International Law
    Faculty of Law
    Tilburg University

Education

  • Ph.D. 2014

    International public law

    Tilburg University

  • M.S. 2000

    Environmental science, policy, and management

    University of California, Berkeley

  • B.A. 1997

    Chemistry and environmental science

    Hampshire College