Jessica Jewell

Jessica Jewell is a PhD candidate at Central European University where her research focuses on energy security. She works in the Energy and Transitions to New Technologies Programs at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis where she provides analytical support for the UN Secretary’s-General’s Sustainable Energy for All initiative and researches the relationship between national energy policies and global energy goals.

Jessica previously worked at the International Energy Agency where she developed a model of short-term energy security (MOSES). She was also a lead author in the Energy Security and Energy Scenarios chapters in the Global Energy Assessment. In the past two years she has published papers on nuclear energy, global energy governance, and energy security.

Ms. Jewell graduated from Brown University with a degree in Geology. As a geologist, she conducted field work in locations as varied as Kyrgyzstan and California. Following her studies, she worked as a geologist at a consulting engineering firm in Washington D.C. She obtained a Master of Science degree from the Erasmus Mundus Masters Programme in Environmental Sciences, Policy and Management (MESPOM) run by the University of Manchester (U.K.), Central European University (Hungary), Lund University (Sweden), and the University of the Aegean (Greece).