Science, Environment and Development Group

Ms. Kelsey Jack
Center for International Development
Kennedy School of Government
Harvard University
502 Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-496-0739
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: kelsey_jack "at" ksgphd.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Doctoral Research Fellow

Brooke "Kelsey" Jack is a Doctoral Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development and a doctoral candidate in the Public Policy Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. She is interested in incentive-based conservation, with a focus on the design of incentive mechanisms to shape household decision-making related to natural resources in developing countries. She has conducted field work on agroforestry systems in Indonesia under a payment for ecosystem services project implemented by the World Agroforestry Centre - ICRAF. Kelsey spent two years with The World Conservation Union - IUCN in Lao PDR, where she worked on issues of conservation and rural livelihoods. She has also worked at the World Resources Institute, New York University Law School Dean’s Office, and the Princeton Environmental Institute. She is a recipient of the Vicki Norberg-Bohm Fellowship (2006) and a Center for International Development Doctoral Research Grant (2006). Jack received her undergraduate degree in public and international affairs from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School.