Dave Jones is Director of the Climate Risk Initiative at UC Berkeley School of Law’s Center on Law, Energy & Environment (CLEE). He was Senior Director for Environmental Risk at The Nature Conservancy from January 2019 – June 2021. Jones was California’s Insurance Commissioner from 2011 – 2018. He founded and chaired the Sustainable Insurance Forum (SIF), an international network of insurance regulators developing climate risk regulatory best practices. Jones was the first US financial regulator to require disclosure of investments in fossil fuel assets due to concerns about climate risk and the first to conduct climate risk scenario analysis of insurers’ investment portfolios. Jones has testified before Congress, state legislatures, the G-20 Financial Stability Board, and regulatory agencies, about the need for financial regulators to address climate change related risk. Jones has degrees from DePauw University (BA) and Harvard University (JD/MPP).