Jennifer McGowan

Research Professor,

Center for Biodiversity Outcomes

Other ASU affiliations

Senior Global Futures Scientist, Global Futures Scientists and Scholars

[email protected]

Mail code: 5402

Campus: Otherus
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Long Bio

Jennifer brings 15+ years of experience in decision science, strategy design, and spatial planning to solve for conservation challenges. She serves as the Global Managing Director of the world’s most impactful conservation planning software - Marxan – an optimization tool that has planned over 5% of the planet for nature and people. Prior to her current roles, Jennifer was a global strategy and spatial scientist at The Nature Conservancy where she worked closely with finance, policy, and corporate engagement teams, and helped build the award-winning Nature Bonds strategy linked to sovereign debt restructuring. Jennifer has over 40 peer-reviewed publications in the field of conservation science which have been covered by BBC Environment, The Economist, Vice, National Geographic, and more. Jennifer has engaged over 2500 people across 50 countries from the Galapagos to Papua New Guinea in capacity building for conservation planning and decision science.

Education

PhD Decision Science for Conservation, Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions, The University of Queensland, Australia

MA Geography: Natural Resource Management and Environmental Planning, San Francisco State University, CA, USA

BA Environmental Studies with a focus on Urban Planning University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, USA

Google Scholar URL

https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=2Fp3s5gAAAAJ&hl=en

Expertise Areas