Jennifer Haverkamp

Who is Jennifer Haverkamp?

Jennifer Haverkamp is an independent consultant based in Washington, DC and an adjunct professor of international environmental law and policy at Johns Hopkins University. In 2003-04, Ms. Haverkamp served as one of two U.S. representatives on the North American Commission on Environmental Cooperations Ten Year Review Advisory Committee. From July 1995 to February 2003, she was the Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources at the Office of the United States Trade Representative (USTR) within the Executive Office of the President. Prior to that appointment, she served as the Deputy Assistant U.S. Trade Representative for Environment and Natural Resources and as a director in USTRs Office of North American Affairs and Office of Intellectual Property and Environment. Before joining USTR in 1993, Ms. Haverkamp was the Special Assistant to the Assistant Administrator for Enforcement of the Environmental Protection Agency; an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justices Environment and Natural Resources Division (receiving the Attorney Generals John Marshall award for her work on the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act); an Associate with the Conservation Foundation, an environmental think tank now merged with the World Wildlife Fund; and a law clerk to the Honorable Betty B. Fletcher, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She earned her J.D. at Yale Law School, an M.A. in Politics and Philosophy from Oxford University (as a Rhodes Scholar), and a B.A. in Biology from the College of Wooster, on whose board of trustees she now serves.