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Biographies
The Environment: Getting Better, Not Worse
October 3, 2001
James Glassman is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and host of TechCentralStation.com. He is also financial columnist for the International Herald Tribune and the Sunday New York Daily News as well as chief columnist and senior consultant to FOLIOfn. Previously, Mr. Glassman was editor and part-owner of Roll Call, president of the Atlantic Monthly, executive vice president of U.S. News & World Report, and publisher of the New Republic. He has written weekly columns for the Washington Post, been monthly investment columnist for Reader’s Digest, and hosted Capital Gang Sunday on CNN and TechnoPolitics on PBS. Mr. Glassman is author of The Secret Code of the Superior Investor and coauthor, with Kevin Hassett, of Dow 36,000.
Allen Hammond is chief information officer and senior scientist for the World Resources Institute. Before joining WRI, he created the Research News section of the international journal Science and went on to found and edit several national publications, including Issues in Science and Technology, and the Information Please Environmental Almanac. Mr. Hammond has written or edited ten books, including his newest, Which World?: Scenarios for the 21st Century. Mr. Hammond has served as a consultant to the White House Science Office, to several U.S. federal agencies, to the United Nations, and to several private foundations.
Bjorn Lomborg is an associate professor of statistics in the Department of Political Science at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. In his controversial new book, The Skeptical Environmentalist: Measuring the Real State of the World, Mr. Lomborg, a former member of Greenpeace, challenges the view that we are destroying our environment. Academically, Mr. Lomborg has published internationally in the fields of game theory and computer simulations. He is a member of the Learned Society of Aarhus and the American Political Science Association. He participates frequently in the public debate on television, radio, and newspapers. He has lectured widely in Denmark, Scandinavia, and elsewhere in Europe.
David Sandalow is executive vice president of the World Wildlife Fund. Before joining the WWF, Mr. Sandalow served as assistant secretary of state for oceans, environment, and science; senior director for environmental affairs, National Security Council; associate director for the global environment, White House Council on Environmental Quality; and was with the Office of General Counsel at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He has been a member of the American Bar Association Standing Committee on Environmental Law, cochair of the ABA’s Annual Conference on Environmental Law, and a member of the Steering Committee of the District of Columbia Bar’s Committee on Environmental and Natural Resources Law.
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