Jason Kaminsky

Jason is a joint MS/MBA student who is interested in learning more about the legal framework, regulatory context, social implications and economic basis of environmental policy. Through IPER, he plans to gain a deeper understanding of how and why regulations are made to better predict movements in the financial markets. Jason plans to move into environmental finance, manipulating financial markets and mechanisms to align incentives for more environmentally friendly investments in areas such as renewable energy, emerging technology and sustainable forestry.

Jason came to Stanford immediately out of his undergraduate studies at UCLA, where he received degrees in Mathematics and Atmospheric, Oceanic & Environmental Sciences. While there he ran the campus’s largest student-led programming board, hosting weekly events on campus. Through this position he also sat on the undergraduate student government council as one of thirteen members representing the entire undergraduate population.

During the summer of 2007, Jason developed an environmental program for the shipping logistics company Aero Logistics through the Graduate School of Business’s Entrepreneurial Summer Program. He also spent a month in Japan with Mitsubishi Heavy Industry’s Power Systems Planning Department, analyzing how American policy and politics will shape demand for a variety of energy technologies in the American energy market.

Jason is excited to be a part of the IPER program and challenging himself in classes with students from a variety of disciplines.