Jennifer Haverkamp

Jennifer Haverkamp

Graham Family Director
Graham Sustainability Institute;Professor from Practice
Michigan Law School
University of Michigan

Jennifer Haverkamp is an internationally recognized expert on climate change, international trade, and global environmental policy and negotiations. In her role as director of the Graham Sustainability Institute at the University of Michigan, she leads the institute in facilitating sustainability-focused collaborations between faculty and students with external stakeholders. She has served in the State Department as an Ambassador and Special Representative for Environment and Water Resources, where she led climate negotiations under the Montreal Protocol and the UN civil aviation organization.  She previously served as a visiting distinguished professor of practice at Cornell Law School, led the international climate program at Environmental Defense Fund, and served in the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the Justice Department’s Environment and Natural Resource Division. She earned a law degree from Yale Law, was a Rhodes Scholar earning a master’s degree in politics and philosophy at Oxford University, and majored in biology at The College of Wooster.