Sikina Jinnah
UC Santa Cruz
Dr Sikina Jinnah is a Professor of Environmental Studies, and the Robert Headley Presidential Chair in Integral Ecology and Environmental Justice at the University of California at Santa Cruz (UCSC). She is the Associate Director for the UCSC Center for Reimagining Leadership (CRL) where she also directs CRL’s Climate Justice Fellows Program. She is also an 2017 Andrew Carnegie Fellow.
Her research focuses on global environmental governance, with a focus on climate change, solar geoengineering, and the nexus between international trade and environmental politics. Most recently she has been working to develop theoretically derived recommendations for the governance of solar geoengineering technologies. She publishes on this topic in her academic work, recently in Science, WIRES Climate Change, and Energy Research and Social Science, and in her capacity as co-chair of the recently concluded Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx).
