Roger Jenkins is the ORNL (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Program Manager for EPA's ETV Project, and Leader of the Sampling and Analysis Group in the Chemical and Analytical Sciences Division at ORNL. He received his Ph.D. in Analytical Chemistry from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1975, and joined ORNL shortly thereafter. His professional interests include field sampling and analysis and characterization of complex airborne aerosols. He has more than 35 open literature publications, several of which involve the performance verification of field analytical technologies. He has sat on advisory panels for the EPA, Departments of Defense and Energy, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute on Drug Abuse, and the Federal Trade Commission. He is a member of the American Chemical Society, the Air and Waste Management Association, and the Society for Risk Analysis.

He lives in Knoxville, TN, is married, with a 19-year old step daughter. His personal interests include backpacking, nature photography, and digital mapping.