Meet the Team

Staff Board Funders Generation Fellows Senior Fellows

Alan Levinovitz

Professor, James Madison University; Writer

Andrew McAfee

Principal Research Scientist, MIT

Ariane de Bremond

Executive officer, International Programme Office of the Global Land Programme

Barry Brook

Professor of Environmental Sustainability, University of Tasmania

Bill Chaloupka

Professor Emeritus, Colorado State University

Chris Foreman

Breakthrough Institute Board Member

Dalton Conley

Professor, New York University

Daniel Sarewitz

Co-Director & Professor, Arizona State University

David Douglas

Vice President, Applied Invention

David Lea

Climate Scientist and Professor of Earth Science, University of California, Santa Barbara

David McGrath

Associate Scientist, Woods Hole Research Center

Eric W. Sanderson

Senior Conservation Ecologist at Wildlife Conservation Society

Erle Ellis

Professor; Senior Fellow

Frank Laird

Associate Professor, University of Denver

Fred Block

Research Professor of Sociology, University of CA Davis

Gregory Nemet

Professor, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Gwyneth Cravens

Author and Journalist

Harry Saunders

Managing Director, Decision Processes Incorporated

Iddo Wernick

Research Associate, Program for the Human Environment at The Rockefeller University

Jayson Lusk

Food and Agricultural Economist

Jennifer Bernstein

Academic Liaison, Breakthrough Institute; Editor in Chief, Case Studies in the Environment

Jennifer Hernandez

Partner, Holland & Knight; Breakthrough Institute Board Member

Jessica Jewell

Associate Professor in Energy Transitions, Chalmers University of Technology; Professor at University of Bergen

Jim Proctor

Professor, Lewis & Clark College

John Asafu-Adjaye

Associate Professor, University of Queensland

Joyashree Roy

Professor of Economics, Jadavpur University, ICSSR National Fellow

Judge Glock

Senior Director of Policy and Research, Cicero Institute

Julio Friedmann

Senior Advisor, Global CCS Institute

Kenneth Cassman

Professor of Agronomy and Horticulture, University of Nebraska

Linus Blomqvist

PhD student, UCSB Bren School

Mark Sagoff

Retired Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, GMU

Martin W. Lewis

Senior Lecturer in International History

Maureen Ogle

Author and Historian

Mel Guymon

Product Lead at Google

Michelle Marvier

Professor, Santa Clara University

Miriam Horn

Writer, Environmental Defense Fund

Omar Wasow

Princeton University

Pamela Ronald

Professor of Plant Pathology, University of California, Davis

Pascal Bruckner

Author

Paul Robbins

Director, Nelson Institute for Environmental Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Paul Romer

Economist and Policy Entrepreneur

Penehuro Lefale

Director, LeA International

Per Peterson

Floyd Professor of Nuclear Engineering, University of California, Berkeley

Peter Kareiva

Chief Scientist and Vice President, The Nature Conservancy

Philippe Benoit

Adjunct Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University’s Center on Global Energy Policy

Richard Lester

Head of the Department of Nuclear Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Ruth DeFries

Denning Family Professor of Sustainable Development, Columbia University

Ryan Phelan

Co-founder and Executive Director, Revive & Restore

Samir Saran

Vice President, Observer Research Foundation

Sandeep Pai

Senior Research Lead, Center for Strategic and International Studies

Sarah Evanega

Director, Cornell Alliance for Science

Siddhartha Shome

Senior Technical Consultant

Steve Fuller

Auguste Comte Professor of Social Epistemology, University of Warwick

Steve Rayner

Steven Pinker

Professor of Psychology, Harvard University

Stewart Brand

Cofounder and President, Long Now Foundation

Taishi Sugiyama

Senior Researcher, Canon Institute of Global Studies

Tom Wigley

Scientist, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research

W. Gyude Moore

Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development

Zeke Hausfather

Climate Research Lead, Stripe; Breakthrough Senior Fellow

Zhongmin Wang

Fellow, Resources for the Future

Fellowships

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The Breakthrough Institute is an environmental research center based in Oakland, California. Our research focuses on identifying and promoting technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges in three areas: energy, conservation, and food and farming.

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