Jeff comes to Reos from a background in international development, though most recently from a farm just north of San Francisco in Marin County, California. He works with Reos London on Metropolitan Agriculture.

While with the Office of HIV/AIDS at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Jeff worked to support the New Partners Initiative, a grant program designed to foster direct US government engagement with grassroots community and faith-based organisations working on HIV/AIDS around the world. After his time with USAID, Jeff moved to Green Gulch Farm where he had the opportunity to be immersed in the day to day operations of a small production organic farm. His time on the farm shaped his understanding and interest in the social, political and economic issues related to agriculture and food systems.

Jeff is a graduate of the London School of Economics (MSc. Population and Development) and James Madison University (BA History). At LSE, his study of demographic issues and their relationship with larger developmental processes deepened his interest in urban environmental sustainability. Building on this, he is also currently a student in the Development Planning Unit at University College London, where he combines his work with Metropolitan Agriculture with doctoral research on urban and peri-urban agriculture and food systems issues.