Jody Freeman

Freeman is a nationally renowned scholar of environmental and administrative law, and a frequent commentator on climate policy in both the scholarly and the popular press. She has been recognized as one of most cited scholars in all of public law, and has written extensively on regulation and governance. Her work has been translated into several languages including Chinese. Freeman is the founding director of Harvard Law School's Environmental and Energy Law and Policy Program. She served in the White House as Counselor for Energy and Climate Change in 2009-10, where she was the architect of President Obama's historic agreement with the auto industry to double fuel-efficiency standards and led other initiatives on climate and energy policy. Freeman served as an independent consultant to President Obama's bipartisan Commission on the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill. She has been a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States, the government's think tank on regulatory innovation, and is a Fellow of the American College of Environmental Lawyers. Ms. Freeman serves on the climate advisory board of NBIM, which manages Norway’s sovereign wealth fund, advising on implementation of the Fund’s Climate Action Plan. She is also an Impact Advisor to Nordic Capital. Professor Freeman formerly served on the Advisory Council of the Electric Power Research Institute and as an independent director of ConocoPhillips.