Professional Affiliation

Attorney at U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of General Counsel

Expert Bio

Jessica Scott is an attorney at the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of General Counsel. She works on international, wildlife, federal Indian law, and environmental justice issues. She has a B.S. from Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and a J.D. from Vermont Law School. In November and December of 2011, she participated in the National Committee on US-China Relations’ Environmental Law Professionals Exchange and served as a Fellow at the American Bar Association’s Rule of Law Initiative in Beijing. During her fellowship with the ABA, she primarily researched and wrote about a pending environmental public interest law case in China, and she also gave presentations to Ministry of Environmental Protection officials and attended various academic and UN-sponsored conferences on behalf of the ABA.