Presenter

Jessica Seddon is a Senior Fellow and Director of the Deitz Family Initiative on Environment and Global Affairs at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs. She is also co-founder of The Institutional Architecture Lab, a new initiative hosted by Demos-Helsinki to improve the practice and theory of institutional design. Her work on environmental and technology governance focuses on how new data sources can be leveraged to enable new (and more sustainable) ways of interacting with the non-human environment around us. Her career in India and the U.S. spans academic, program leadership, and strategic advisory roles focused on institutional design for integrating science into policy and social initiatives. Seddon serves on the academic council of the Indian School of Public Policy in New Delhi and is a Visiting Professor at Krea University in South India.