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Dr Jennifer Baka
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Dr Jennifer Baka is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Environment at the London School of Economics.
Background
Jenn has over a decade of work and research experience in energy policy. She joined LSE from the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, where she recently completed her PhD and a one-year post doc.
For her PhD, Jenn critically examined the concept of ‘wastelands’ as it relates to India’s biofuel programme through an interdisciplinary industrial and political ecology framework.
Prior to Yale, she earned an MPP in Public Policy from UC Berkeley, where she researched the trade impacts of biofuel production.
Prior to graduate school, she worked as an economic consultant in Washington, DC, examining the impacts of electricity market deregulation in the US.
Research interests
- Energy policy (biofuels, renewable energy, fracking);
- Environmental policy;
- Land use policy;
- India;
- Industrial ecology;
- Political ecology.
