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Andrew Light

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Andrew Light, Ph.D., is a Senior Fellow at American Progress specializing in international climate and science policy, and a professor at George Mason University where he is director of the Center for Global Ethics. He leads CAP’s work on international climate issues including participation in the Global Climate Network and efforts involving the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change meetings.

Light is an internationally recognized expert on the relationship between environmental policy and ethics. Before coming to CAP he focused mostly on restoration ecology and conservation biology. He is currently working on a variety of projects involving U.S. participation in multilateral and bilateral climate and energy agreements, reducing emissions from deforestation, and climate finance. In addition to this work, he maintains an active body of research on the social implications of new and emerging technologies, such as nanotechnology and synthetic biology. On all of these topics, he has authored, co-authored, and edited 17 books including: Environmental Values (2008); Philosophy and Design (2008); Controlling Technology (2005); Environmental Ethics (2003); Moral and Political Reasoning in Environmental Practice (2003); Technology and the Good Life? (2000); and Environmental Pragmatism (1996). Light is also co-editor of the journal Ethics, Policy, and Environment.

His doctoral work was at the University of California at Riverside and UCLA in ethics and public policy, and he completed a three-year postdoctoral fellowship in environmental risk assessment in the School of Medicine at the University of Alberta, Canada. Before moving to Washington, D.C., he taught at the University of Montana, SUNY Binghamton, New York University, and the University of Washington, Seattle. He is a frequent advisor to various agencies on environmental and technology policy, including the State Department, DOE, U.S. Forest Service, the National Parks Service, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and the National Science Foundation.

 

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