Betony Jones

As a senior fellow at the Roosevelt Institute, Betony Jones focuses on climate, labor, and economic policy. Her work examines how large-scale public investments—particularly in the clean energy sector—can drive social and economic transformation when designed with labor and community benefits at the center.

In the Biden-Harris administration, Betony served as the senior advisor on labor to Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm and as director of the office of energy jobs at the US Department of Energy (DOE). In these roles, she led cross-agency efforts to ensure that historic federal investments resulted in job quality and job access across the energy sector and its supply chains.

In 2017, Betony founded Inclusive Economics, a research and advisory firm that works at the nexus of climate, labor, and economic equity. She launched the firm after working at the UC Berkeley Labor Center as associate director of the Green Economy program, where she focused on the distributional economic and employment impacts of climate policy.