Dr. Jennifer Le Blond is the Interim CEO of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center. She joined MassCEC in November 2024 as Managing Director of Emerging Climatetech, ensuring that innovators and entrepreneurs have the support they need to create, stay, scale, and succeed here in Massachusetts. Prior to MassCEC, Jenn led efforts in science diplomacy as the East Coast US Director of the Science and Technology Network for the UK Government, fostering relations between the US and UK. She has experience in tech transfer, IP management, and strategic partnerships from roles at the Office for Technology Development at Harvard University and in venture capital.
Jenn came to the US to join an agritech startup that spun out of MIT and spent just under three years as the company’s Technology Manager. Jenn holds a PhD in Geology from the University of Cambridge and was a university research fellow at Imperial College London before relocating to the United States. Post-PhD, Jenn completed a postgraduate degree in Nanotechnology at the University of Oxford and more recently attained further education certificates in Corporate Innovation from MIT Sloan School of Management.