Jennifer Green is currently a Research Scientist in the Strategic Engineering Research Group in the Engineering Systems Division at MIT. She has a multidisciplinary background in aerospace engineering, project management, international development, humanitarian logistics and appropriate technology for developing countries. Prior to joining MIT, Jennifer was the lead for logistics at Oxfam America, where she was responsible for defining global logistics policies and procedures, providing training for logistics staff, managing international procurement, and providing operational logistics support for emergencies around the world.

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Prior to Oxfam, Jennifer worked as an engineer for 20 years in a variety of positions in the commercial, government, and non-profit sectors. Following her B.S. in Aerospace Engineering at Virginia Tech, she worked for McDonnell Douglas/Boeing for 12 years and provided engineering analysis and integrated logistics support to numerous NASA programs, including the International Space Station and several space transportation architecture studies. After volunteering for two years in West Africa from 2001 - 2003, Jennifer started her own consulting company and worked as a subject matter expert on space logistics and lunar system reliability and maintainability as part of the NASA Constellation Program.

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Jennifer has worked extensively in East and West Africa, Russia and Europe and recently completed a Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Logistics and Management at the University of Lugano in Switzerland.