Jennifer Haverkamp

Jennifer Haverkamp is the Graham Family Director of the Graham Sustainability Institute, a professor from practice at Michigan Law School, and a professor of practice at the Ford School of Public Policy. She co-led the U-M President’s Commission on Carbon Neutrality, and has also taught law and policy at Cornell, George Washington University, and Johns Hopkins. She is a long-serving member of the College of Wooster’s Board of Trustees. 

Beyond academia, Ms. Haverkamp has had a distinguished career in government, culminating in her appointment as Special Representative for Environment and Water Resources, with the personal rank of ambassador, in the U.S. Department of State under President Barack Obama. In 2016 she led the US negotiating teams for the Kigali HFC Amendment to the Montreal Protocol and the International Civil Aviation Organization’s landmark CORSIA agreement to control global greenhouse gas emissions. She was also the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Water Resources, worked for the EPA and the Justice Department, and led the international climate program at the nonprofit Environmental Defense Fund.