Emily Brock *04 HOS
Persistent, Interdisciplinary, Connector
Corporate Sustainability, Weyerhaeuser
Emily Brock has focused her career on understanding how forest industries provide sustainability solutions for stakeholders and society. Her work in this field has included academia, nonprofits, finance and the corporate sector. She holds a Ph.D. from Princeton, a master’s in environmental management from Yale University and a master’s in biology from University of Oregon. Her undergraduate degree is from St. John’s College in Maryland. After receiving her doctorate from Princeton’s Program in History of Science, she spent more than a decade in academia, including as a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, a senior Fulbright research scholar in U.S.-Philippines relations in Manila, a tenure-line faculty member at the University of South Carolina and a senior research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin. Her book, “Money Trees: The Douglas Fir and American Forestry,” was published by Oregon State University Press. After moving to the private sector, she worked as a corporate sustainability consultant. She now works for Weyerhaeuser, a North American wood products company that is one of the world’s largest private owners of timberlands.