Richard Sclove, Ph.D.

Richard Sclove, Ph. D. is Founder and Senior Fellow of The Loka Institute, a nonprofit organization dedicated to making science and technology responsive to democratically decided social and environmental priorities. He is the U.S. Advisor to the World Wide Views on Global Warming project, the first globe-encompassing, citizen deliberation in history. He has briefed U.S. and other national decision-makers on science and technology policy, and prepared testimony for the House Science Committee of the U.S. Congress. The author of the award-winning book Democracy and Technology, his articles have appeared in The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, The Chronicle of Higher Education, Technology Review and Science magazine. Dr. Sclove holds advanced degrees in nuclear engineering and political science, and is an elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.