Lisa Shaffer
lshaffer@ucsd.edu
Phone: (858) 822-2489
Fax: (858) 534-3939
UC San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr.
San Diego, CA 92093-0519
Office: #1414
Personal Website
Biography
Dr. Lisa Shaffer is a Lecturer at IR/PS and the Rady School of Management. She teaches undergraduate courses on ethics and corporate responsibility as well as graduate courses “Corporate Strategy and the Environment” at IR/PS and “Topics in Innovation: Cleantech” at Rady. She was the founding executive director of the UC San Diego campus-wide Sustainability Solutions Institute (formerly the Environment and Sustainability Initiative), and served there from 2005 to 2010. Dr. Shaffer spent the first 25 years of her career in Washington, D.C. in a variety of positions at NASA, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the private sector, focusing on international cooperation in studying the earth from space. In 1998, she joined Scripps Institution of Oceanography, where she was responsible for international relations and program development for nine years. In September 2007, she moved to the main UCSD campus to devote her time to building a sustainability program across campus and to pursue an executive M.B.A. at UC San Diego’s Rady School of Management, which she completed in 2009. Shaffer earned her B.A. in political science and international relations from the University of Michigan, and her Ph.D. in public policy almost 20 years later from the George Washington University.
