Jennifer Welch is the Director of Brown's Research Agreements and Contracting office. Jen is The Policy Lab’s in-house liaison for research agreements.
The Research Agreements and Contracting (RAC) office is responsible for drafting, negotiating, and managing contracts and agreements in support of research at Brown, including MTAs, DUAs, Non-Funded Agreements, and other complex and unique contracts.
Jen supports the Lab’s data governance infrastructure by developing, reviewing, and negotiating data sharing arrangements which meet both the requirements of project partners and Brown’s standards for the use and protection of research data. Jen consults and advises on research agreement needs for all projects from the earliest stages of development, and she signs all the resulting legal agreements on behalf of The Policy Lab and Brown University.
Jen received a law degree at New England Law | Boston and previously worked at two banks in Boston. Jen left the financial world and moved to Rhode Island in 2019 hoping to make a tangible contribution to Brown's creation of knowledge in pursuit of solving society's biggest challenges.
