Summit in Odisha, India. March 2026, with UN, Indian government, World Bank, and more

Jennifer’s work has revolved around communications, strategy and new frontier developments that shape the macroeconomy—technology, energy and resources, and infrastructure, in particular. She helps clients and organizations communicate the value of their offerings in projects, programs or as an in-house partner. Thought leadership is a long-running aspect that shapes her approach. Utilizing her experience and network, she helps companies and institutions create value with impact from boots-on-the-ground effort.

Jennifer served as CEO of nonprofit Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations (DCFR) from 2010 to 2013 and continues as a Fellow. In addition to expanding the reach of DCFR, she produced 20-25 globally-focused, high-level speaker events annually. This included hosting ambassadors, counterterrorism czars, theoretical physicists and many thought leaders cutting across global disciplines and in geopolitical hot zones. She still provides in-house services from time to time.

ENGAGEMENTS:

• Blue Economy Summit in Bhubaneshwar, Odisha, India, Mar 13, 2026

• “Texas Data Center Boom” panel, Baker Botts BOD Forum, Old Parkland, Feb 10, 2026

• Montana World Affairs, Distinguished Speaker Series, Mar 2025 | Reindustrialization keynote, Apr 16 2024 | “Chronicles in Energy and Geopolitics” Oct 2023, University of Montana/ World Affairs,

• Inaugural Investor Summit, NYC, Seeking Alpha, fin-tech platform, June 18, 2024

• IVYFON Investor Conferences: San Francisco, New York, and Austin, 2022-24

• Geology, Geopolitics and Capital, moderator, D CEO, with Kyle Bass and George Yates, Oct 2022

• EarthX E-Capital Summit panel moderator, St. Maarten’s Prime Minister Jacobs, April 2022

• Infrastructure Development Paths: To Iraqi leaders, State Department, at SMUCox, 2010

She serves as a key contributor for DCEO’s annual energy edition, and occasional related frontier tech developments, including digital infrastructure and AI. (See publishings page.) Jennifer is published in various academic, policy and business publications such as Far Eastern Economic Review, Economist Intelligence Unit’s Executive Briefing, Journal of Structured Finance, Lloyd's List, and others. She develops and curates high-level content as an intelligence resource for executives, investors, organizations, and subscribers called “More Than Elemental” on Substack.

In 1989, she graduated from the London School of Economics (LSE) with an M.Sc. in European Studies (emphasis economics). She graduated with honors from the University of Denver with a double major in Finance and Marketing. While in London, after the LSE, she studied fine art and architecture with Sotheby's, with an equivalent BA degree. She also studied Russian for four years throughout her university days. Jennifer is a Fellow of the Next Generation Project at Columbia University. She has grown up on the Internet, using Mosaic with government and scientists in its nascent days and building her own website in 1996.

A few highlights:

  • Projects integrating developments in land, resources, energy and tech, ie., reindustrialization, c. 2022 to present;

  • Deep-dive chronicling the U.S. shale revolution since 2006 and its global impact;

  • Developing one of the first and early knowledge (thought leadership) microsites for a university (c. 2003);

  • Analysis, by request, at Seeking Alpha, a crowdsourced financial platform in 2013, with a sizable following from occasional energy, tech and macro research notes.

TEXAS DATA CENTER BOOM

Curated and developed Baker Botts panel

DCFR holiday event, featuring Australia’s recent PM Scott Morrison, Dec 12 ‘24. Handled bespoke outreach and unique industrial site visit

Storytelling

“Editor’s Note 11/24:

For Warren’s latest deep-dive, we felt it was important to keep things at a high level of sophistication and give readers the value that only she can deliver. She spent months doing research and interviews before fitting the puzzle pieces together. “I was turning myself inside out, trying to thread it all together in a coherent way, with so much to capture,” she says...

Driven by intellectual curiosity, she operates in a left brain-right brain world. She is wildly creative but equally as passionate about unearthing data to confirm (or disprove) her ideas.
”
— Editor's Note, D CEO magazine, 11/24

DCEO Energy Edition, November 2024

synching up Ai infrastructure: Energy, Resources and infrastructure

How all the work builds and threads together

  • From Distinguished Finance Professor Dr. Andrew Chen about Jennifer’s Role in Global Infrastructure Development Theory and Application

    USING CAPITAL MARKETS TO FINANCE INFRASTRUCTURE

     The work on the capital market-based approach to finance large-scale infrastructure development began when Jennifer asked if she could either use an idea from a working paper as a citation or join her in co-authoring for a 2005-06 World Bank essay competition about efforts that advance global development.

    I joined in. After that, we applied the approach to India’s infrastructure development as the country needed private capital beyond the capacities of the government in Journal of Structured Finance (summer 2007). Jennifer saw how the theory could be applied to India’s situation. A Far Eastern Economic Review editor saw the academic paper and requested we write a policy-practitioner version, which became the 2008 cover story “Paving the Path: For India’s Growth.” We then applied it to China’s sustainable growth in The Chinese Economy (2011), and included more water infrastructure as it was emerging as a major concern. Jennifer had been researching water stress issues since 2003.

    A book chapter then ensued also by editor request, “Targeting the Future: Smarter, Cleaner Infrastructure Development Choices,” for a climate change book in 2012; it offered ways to finance energy infrastructure and curb growing carbon emissions, particularly for the growth economies of India and China. In 2021, Real Leaders published a brief version of our combined ideas, as a way to boost the sustainably-oriented infrastructure that governments and economies want and need. Jennifer was always good in seeing the practical application of my theory.

    Jennifer’s interest in sustainable resource development and addressing climate issues was a critical part of the work, as well as her ability to apply research to pressing global problems of the day. She is continuing to apply this work in her natural capital practice, alongside developments and advances in energy infrastructure. She is quite adept at seeing how to utilize capital markets and convey complex ideas to various stakeholder groups to further economic opportunity.

     —    Dr. Andrew Chen, September 2023

  • Presented at University of Montana, I first highlight my work about natural capital (42:13). Video link.

  • My mentor and coauthor leaves a major mark. Link to video.

  • My place in the space. Link

Global outreach—Connecting leaders, community and knowledge

Global humanitarian event, Seattle, Amma's U.S. Tour 2024. Invited and facilitated guests for opening ceremonies.

IMPACT work: self-published Article cited in recent academic publication on accelerating transmission

Thought leadership & knowledge work present and past

SMUCox faculty research site editor and podcast host (original founder c. 2003) Image link

“I don’t say it enough, but many thanks for all you do. Your work is very important to us—not just the mar/com department, but to the faculty. It’s so important for them to work with someone who “gets them.” Thank you for continuing to stick with us. — ”
— Note from a decades-long relationship developing thought leadership

Early work: CORPORATE LIFE in financial services

My work life began on the Internet pre-1995, a date which marks the Internet’s beginnings. In 1996, I built my own site (and never again). From the late 90s onward, I worked between the CEO and executive-level CMO in a strategy and data analytics role in financial services products and national marketing. The products were complex, expensive and required considerable education to market and sell. Through R&D efforts, I helped creatively translate findings into product development, business strategy and successful integrated, marketing campaigns. This early thought leadership work was put uniquely into action through 2000-2010 in this large family-owned business that partnered with major insurers such as Allianz, Travelers and others. From this knowledge, an evolving white paper spanning ~20 years, was presented to the largest pension funds in the world. I still own domains specific to the work related to portfolio development. Since then, other domains have been collected.

In 2003-2004, I helped developed an award-winning knowledge site for a leading business university. I serve as its editor to this day. An iteration of this approach was holistically applied to client and project work c. 2022-24.