Jennifer Morgan
Non-Executive Director
Jennifer L. Morgan joined E3G on October 1st, 2006 as its Global Climate Change Director, leading the organisation’s climate change work on its full range of global activities. Ms. Morgan focuses most of her time on EU relations with China and the United States and continues her long-standing involvement in the global discussions on the future of the climate regime post-2012. As a Board member of E3G, she is responsible for overall communications and networking strategies of the organisation.
In 2007, she served as Senior Advisor to the German Chancellor´s Chief Advisor, Dr. Schellnhuber and in 2008 advised former Prime Minister Tony Blair in his Breaking the Climate Deadlock project.
Prior to joining E3G, Jennifer Morgan led the Global Climate Change Programme of Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF), present in over 30 countries around the world. She joined WWF in July 1998 and headed its delegation to the Kyoto Protocol climate negotiations. Jennifer formulated and advocated climate change policies on the international and national level and directed WWF’s science, business and communications efforts, acting as chief spokesperson for the organisation on climate change. She has also served on a number of Boards including the Climate Action Network, the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Partnership and REN21.
Before joining WWF, Ms. Morgan worked for the US Climate Action Network, a network of over 200 environmental groups worldwide with eight regional offices working on global climate change. She took a leave of absence from CAN in 1996 to accept a fellowship with the Robert Bosch Foundation in Germany. During her year in Germany she worked for the European Business Council for a Sustainable Energy Future and for the Federal Ministry of Environment, supporting the head of the German delegation to the UN climate change negotiations.
She has a Bachelor of Arts from Indiana University in Political Science and Germanic Studies and a Masters of Art from the School of International Service, The American University in International Affairs.