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Jennifer has worked across decades in communications, strategy and market development, translating strategy into action. She works across management structures, with leaders and founders, in firms and institutions of all sizes. Transformative developments in energy, real assets and infrastructure —with attention to innovation and investment—have been active themes in recent work. For clients, she listens and translates their “story” —that of value creation and impact—often ground zero for new ventures.

A few highlights include:

• developing one of three early knowledge (thought leadership) sites for a university (c. 2003);

• recognizing the global impact and deep-dive chronicling the U.S. shale booms since 2006; and

• integrating developments in land, resources, energy and tech;

• and speaking to investors and various audiences about my work, outlook and findings.

Of late, she is playing unique roles in the success of global events concerning G7 and G20 leaders. She served as CEO of Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations from late 2010 to spring 2013 and continues as a Fellow. In addition to expanding the reach of DCFR, she produced 20-25 globally-focused, high-level speaker events annually. This included hosting ambassadors, counterterrorism czars, theoretical physicists and many thought leaders cutting across global disciplines and in geopolitical hot zones.

Jennifer is published in various academic, policy and business publications such as Far Eastern Economic Review, Economist Intelligence Unit’s Executive Briefing, Journal of Structured Finance, Lloyd's List, D CEO and others. Since 2019, she has been a key contributing editor for DCEO’s annual energy edition. (See publishings page.)

In 1989, she graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) with an M.Sc. in European Studies (emphasis economics). She graduated with honors from the University of Denver with a double major in Finance and Marketing. While in London, after the LSE, she studied fine art and architecture with Sotheby's, with an equivalent BA degree. She also studied Russian for four years throughout her university days. Jennifer is a Fellow of the Next Generation Project at Columbia University. She has grown up on the Internet, using Mosaic with government and scientists in its nascent days and building her own website in 1996.

Article was referenced in this recent academic publication on connecting transmission

Energy, Resources and infrastructure

Thought leadership & knowledge work past, present

My work life began on the Internet pre-1995, a date which marks the Internet’s beginnings. In 1996, I built my own site (and never again). From the late 90s onward, I worked between the CEO and executive-level CMO in a strategy and data analytics role in financial services products and national marketing. The products were complex, expensive and required considerable education to market and sell. Through R&D efforts, I helped creatively translate findings into product development, business strategy and successful integrated, marketing campaigns. This early thought leadership work was put uniquely into action through 2000-2010 in this large family-owned business that partnered with major insurers such as Allianz, Travelers and others. From this knowledge, an evolving white paper spanning ~20 years, was presented to the largest pension funds in the world. I still own domains specific to the work related to portfolio development. Since then, other domains have been collected.

In 2003-2004, I helped developed an award-winning knowledge site for a leading business university. I serve as its editor to this day.

An iteration of this approach was holistically applied to client and project work c. 2022-24.