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Janelle Knox-Hayes is a Professor of Economic Geography and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she holds the Lister Brothers Professorship. Her research focuses on the interactions between social and environmental systems governed by changing temporal and spatial scales, highlighting the consequences of globalization. She has studied the political and economic interfaces between financial markets and environmental systems, emphasizing how individuals and organizations plan and make decisions under conditions of socio-economic uncertainty. Knox-Hayes's latest project examines how social values shape sustainable development practices. She has been awarded the SSRC Abe Fellowship for her study of environmental finance in the Asia-Pacific region and the Fulbright Fellowship for research on sustainable decision-making in Iceland. An author of numerous peer-reviewed articles published in prestigious journals, she also serves as an editor for the Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society. Prior to her role at DUSP, she was an associate professor at the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. Knox-Hayes earned her BA with Summa Cum Laude honors in International Affairs, Ecology, and Japanese Language and Civilizations from the University of Colorado Boulder in 2004, followed by an MSc with Distinction and DPhil from the University of Oxford in 2006 and 2009, respectively. Throughout her academic career, she has also worked as an energy analyst for the United States Government Accountability Office and New Energy Finance.