Jon Entine is a senior research fellow and director of the Genetic Literacy Project at the Center for Health and Risk Communication and the Statistical Assessment Service (STATS), both at George Mason University. He is an author, journalist, think tank scholar and organizational consultant. He is co-founder of ESG MediaMetrics, which advises corporations and NGOs on Environmental, Social, and Governance issues, including sustainability and executive leadership, brand reputation and strategic communications. He has written a column for the British-based international magazine Ethical Corporation since 2000, and is a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C. since 2002.

Jon writes for academic and popular publications around the world and is a frequent television and radio commentator on business issues, including CNN, MSNBC, Fox Business, NPR, and BBC. He has written and edited seven books, most recently Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution (AEI Books, 2011).

Before launching his consulting and writing career, Jon spent 19 years as a network television news producer, winning more than twenty awards including Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the Soviet Union. He has produced news magazine programs at ABC News and CBS News, an entertainment special for NBC on the Miss America Pageant, and was Tom Brokaw’s long-time producer at NBC News, where he was also the executive-in-charge of documentaries.

In 1989, Tom and Jon collaborated to write and produce Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction, named Best International Sports Film of 1989). It led to his best-selling book, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We are Afraid to Talk About It (Public Affairs, 2000), which was reissued in 2007.

AEI has published four books written and edited by Jon, including: Crop Chemophobia: Will Precaution Kill the Green Revolution? Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing (AEI Press, 2005) on the growing influence of social investing in pension funds; and Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (AEI Press, 2006), which examines the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming. Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People (Grand Central Publishing), which merges genealogy, genetics, and religion to vividly bring to life a new understanding of Western identity and the shared biblical ancestry of Jews, Christians, and Muslims, was published in 2007. His previous bestseller, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We're Afraid to Talk About It (PublicAffairs, 2000) was re-issued in 2007. Both books address the social and political tempest that a renewed focus on “race” research is stirring.

Jon’s work has been featured or profiled in hundreds of articles and on many TV and radio programs, including ABC’s 20/20 and World News Tonight, Discovery’s Planet Green, FOX’s Bill O’Reilly and Hannity & Colmes, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Lou Dobbs, MSNBC’s Hardball, HBO, NPR, BBC, C-Span, Court TV, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Business Week, Forbes, Fortune, National Review, National Post (Canada), Toronto Globe and Mail, The Australian, The Australian Business Review, Guardian (UK), The Observer, The Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, The Independent, and The Sunday Times (UK).

Jon has participated in and organized dozens of public forums on policy issues at the AEI, the Brookings Institution, the Hudson Institute and numerous other organizations. He has served as a lecturer at various universities, including Columbia University, the University of Michigan, Arizona State University, New York University, and most recently Miami (Ohio) University, where he was scholar-in-residence. Jon often gives speeches on 'science and society' issues, and is represented by numerous agencies including the Jewish National Fund and Jewish Federations of North America.

Jon graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1974 with a degree in philosophy and earned a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Journalism at the University of Michigan in 1981-1982. He is on the board of the Jewish Community Relations Council in Cincinnati, where he resides.

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