Jessica Fox

Jessica Fox is a conservation biologist leading efforts on water management, pollinators, environmental markets, ecosystem services, sustainability and related work. She currently works for the Electric Power Research Institute, a non-profit organization focused on environmental science related to electricity generation and use. She led the EPRI Water & Ecosystem $15M/yr research team from 2016-2019, including water quality, water quantity, watershed resiliency, fish protection programs. In 2018, Ms. Fox launched the EPRI Power-in-Pollinators Initiative, which is now the largest effort in North America for electric power companies to collaborate on pollinator conservation research and projects. Previously, Fox led EPRI’s Energy Sustainability Interest Group from 2011 through 2016 to become the largest collaborative forum in the industry to advance critical issues related to sustainable electricity. In 2015, Ms. Fox accepted the United States Water Prize for creating the Ohio River Basin Water Quality Trading Project, the first multi-state exchange for farmers to create and sell water quality credits. In both 2017 and 2021, Fox was recognized as Top Innovator (The Fantastic Forty) by Public Utilities Fortnightly. Her projects have been covered by the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, National Public Radio, Bloomberg, and others. She previously worked as a molecular biologist leading conservation genetics projects on dragonflies in Costa Rica, at Stanford University sequencing and mapping the human genome, and as invasive weed field biologist for U.S. Bureau of Land Management. She has a Bachelor’s of Science from University of California at Davis, and a Master’s of Science from Stanford University.