Jessica Wilkinson is a Senior Science and Policy Analyst at the
Environmental Law Institute in Washington, DC. As director of ELI’s Wetlands Program, she oversees the Institute’s program of wetlands
research. She was the lead author of several of ELI’s wetlands publications, including Banks and Fees: The Status of Off-Site Wetland
Mitigation in the United States (2002) and The Status and Character of In-Lieu Fee Mitigation in the United States (2006). Since 2000, she has
conducted research in support of the development of national policies to improve federal compensatory mitigation and has facilitated numerous
national policy dialogues with a diverse range of stakeholders.