Dr. Jennifer Marie S. Amparo is an Associate Professor and currently the Dean of the College of Human Ecology. Prior to this, she was the Assistant to the Vice-Chancellor for Administration and Director of the Business Affairs Office. She has a PhD in Human Ecology from the Australian National University under the Australia Awards Scholarship. Her thesis is "Dynamics of Social-ecological Traps: The Case of Small-scale fishers in the Philippines". She also is a MA Sociology graduate from UP Diliman and BS Human Ecology major in Social Technology alumnae (cum laude). Her research interest is on systems thinking, dynamics of food systems and nature-based livelihoods, health and pollution, and gendered impacts of development programs. She has worked in Blacksmith Institute as Country Coordinator working on remediation projects of polluted and contaminated sites in the Philippines (2009-2012) and as a Project Officer of the Philippine NGO Council on Health, Population, and Welfare (PNGOC) (1998-2001). She has served as Project Leader in a number of national and regional projects such funded by SEARCA, DFAT and UNICEF, ADB and WB. She has also served as local and International trainor and facilitator. Her current work is on co-production in gendered sustainable nature-based livelihoods.