Jennifer Huang is Director of the International Program at the Center for Climate and Energy Solutions (C2ES). Ms. Huang helps manage C2ES’s international work, particularly in relation to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations, and facilitates dialogue among international policymakers on key negotiation issues. Her current area of focus is the ambition cycle of the Paris Agreement, in particular the follow up to the outcomes of the first global stocktake (GST), and the evolution of the Paris regime. She managed the C2ES Global Stocktake Project from 2021–23, which helped to shape the GST process by ensuring a strong focus on opportunities to scale up climate ambition and implementation.

Ms. Huang has more than a decade of experience in international climate policy. Prior to joining C2ES, Ms. Huang worked as a law clerk at the White House Council on Environmental Quality and as a legal intern on the Paris Agreement strategy team at the UNFCCC secretariat in Bonn, Germany.

Ms. Huang holds an L.L.M. degree in environmental law with a focus on climate change and a J.D. with certificates in international and environmental law from Pace Law School (now the Elizabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University). She received an interdisciplinary Bachelor of Arts in war and military studies from New York University.