About the IAPP

Professor Whittington’s professional and academic career has been shaped around the need to understand the economic and environmental consequences of investments in infrastructure. Jan is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Urban Design and Planning at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her PhD is in City and Regional Planning from the University of California, Berkeley (2008), where she studied transaction cost economics with recent Nobel laureate Oliver Williamson. Prior to her academic career, she spent ten years with infrastructure giant Bechtel Corporation, as a strategic planner and environmental scientist. Professor Whittington’s environmental interests arise from undergraduate degrees in Biology and Environmental Studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz (1983). Her Master’s degree is in City and Regional Planning, from California State University, San Luis Obispo (1993).