After working in London in venture capital and in Milan at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (environmental economics), Jane da Mosto settled in Venice in 1995 when shemarried a Venetian, and has since had 4 children while also working variously including as a consultant on several European DG Environment projects, as Coordinator of the Scientific Advisory Board for Agenda 21 on behalf of Venice Town Council, for CNR (National Research Council) on climate change, as a researcher at CORILA (university consortium for coordinating research connected with safeguarding Venice and the Lagoon), occasional lecturing and as curator of a section of the British Pavilion dedicated to the Venice Lagoon for the XII Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2001 Jane became scientific advisor to the Venice in Peril Fund, which continues to support much of the work she does.

In one way or another, Jane has been exploring the challenges of “sustainable development” within the boundaries of the best available knowledge and the public understanding of science and how best to broaden society’s capacity to appreciate the issues and make the inevitable choices. Venice’s exceptional history – which deserves an equally remarkable future – and the city’s closeness to the elements, situated as it is at the boundaries between the sea and freshwater systems, earth and sky, makes it an ideal laboratory for ideas and many critical phenomena are exposed, magnified and at close range.