Jacqueline Klopp

Jacqueline Klopp is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Urban Development. She is a research scholar who explores the intersection of sustainable transport, land use, air pollution and climate in cities with a focus on accountability, technology, power and governance. Klopp is the author of numerous academic and popular articles on land and the politics of transportation infrastructures in an age of urbanization within climate and ecological crisis.

Klopp received her BA from Harvard University where she studied Physics and her PhD in Political Science is from McGill University. Previously, Jacqueline Klopp was an Assistant Professor of International and Public Affairs at the School of International and Public Affairs and Director of the Economic and Political Development Concentration. She currently teaches in the Sustainable Development undergraduate program at Columbia University and serves as a co-director of the Environmental Justice and Climate Just Cities network at Columbia University and a co-founder of the Resilient Coastal Communities Project.

Jacqueline Klopp serves as an Advisory Committee Member.