Jessica Wilkinson is Senior Policy Advisor for Energy & Infrastructure at The Nature Conservancy (TNC). She supports TNC on its clean and green renewable energy and mitigation policy work across regions. Before joining TNC, Jessica was a Senior Policy Analyst and Director of the Wetlands Program at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington, DC. She joined ELI in 1994 after receiving her Master’s of Environmental Management from Yale University, School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a BA in Environmental Science from Barnard College, Columbia University. As director of ELI’s Wetlands Program, Jessica oversaw the Institute’s program of wetlands research and training. She has been the lead researcher on several of ELI’s seminal wetlands publications, has designed and administered numerous training courses on compensatory mitigation, and has led policy dialogues on wetland protection, water quality trading, and the integration of biodiversity conservation and land use planning.
