Jill Duggan

Jill Duggan is Executive Director of Environmental Defense Fund Europe, drawing on her extensive career in climate, environment and energy policy, spanning the globe including Europe, North America, Asia, Oceania. She has worked for governments, industry, think tanks and led progressive business groups. She has given expert testimony on Climate and Energy policy in a number of jurisdictions around the world. She is now building the European engagement of EDF, sharing the science and economics evidence base to develop pragmatic yet ambitious polices for the global carbon transition.

Doing my bit to curb climate change by joining the dots between economic thinking and policymaking; mentoring women to succeed in the environmental policy world.

Applying pandemic learnings to battle the climate crisis. The pandemic provides us with a momentum where we know the new normal will not be like the old. We can use the opportunity to instill new habits, create new incentives, and try to really rebuild better and leave behind the bad habits and practices of the old normal.