JENNIFER GRANHOLM is a former two-term governor of Michigan. In 2002 she became the first woman elected as governor of Michigan, and in 2006 she was re-elected with the largest number of votes ever cast for governor in the state. Under Granholm’s leadership, Michigan led the country in the improvement of job market conditions between 2009 and 2010, according to the Gallup Job Creation Index.

Granholm is a senior research fellow at the Berkeley Energy and Climate Institute and a project scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. She is an honours graduate of UC Berkeley and Harvard Law School.