People

Dr. Susan Jenkins is Managing Director for the Bakar BioEnginuity Hub and the Bakar Fellows Program, and as a member of the directorate she is involved in strategic planning and management. In addition, she plays a key role integrating policy, outreach, and education activities for these programs, while serving as a liaison to campus, state, federal and international entities. Previously, Dr. Jenkins was the Managing Director of the Energy Biosciences Institute, at the time the world’s largest public-private partnership focused on sustainable approaches for bioenergy. She has extensive expertise in developing innovative, multi-disciplinary research institutes to ensure that basic science leads to transformative solutions. On an ongoing basis, Dr. Jenkins lectures and advise on academic-industry partnerships, biotechnology, genome editing, and bioenergy, and has served on advisory committees for foundations, institutes, and companies in the US and internationally to help develop multidisciplinary initiatives to address issues relating to the bioeconomy, bioenergy, sustainability, and climate change. Dr. Jenkins holds a B.S. degree in Genetics from the University of California, Davis and a PhD in Plant Molecular Biology from University of California, Berkeley, and a certificate in Executive Management from Haas School of Business, where she also served as an instructor for the NSF I-Corps Regional program.