The Ecomodernist

Breakthrough

Deputy Director at the Breakthrough Institute. Ecomodernist. Promethean Hamiltonian Schumpeterian meliorist.

Physician and molecular biologist. 15-year veteran of the FDA, founding director of its Office of Biotechnology.

Dr. Seaver Wang is Co-Director of the Climate and Energy program at the Breakthrough Institute, a global research center that promotes technological solutions to environmental and human-development challenges.

Lifelong journalist. Network TV news producer. Founder of the Science Literacy Project (aka Genetic Literacy Project).

Philosopher and independent scholar writing on human progress and human (ir)rationality. Author of The Betrayal of Enlightenment, forthcoming from Pitchstone Publishing.

Writer

I write about the politics of science, technology, and society. Author of The Divide, a book about the decline and revival of democracy.

Geologist, Researcher, Critical Mineral Policy Adviser

I ♥️ clean energy, especially nuclear energy. Analyst at the Breakthrough Institute and freelance writer.

Shawn Regan is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute, where he writes on economic, energy, and environmental issues.

Analyst at The Breakthrough Institute focused on NEPA, permitting reform, and the legal barriers that slow clean energy and infrastructure development.

Emily Bass is the Director of Federal Policy for Food & Agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute.

Ted Nordhaus is the founder and executive director of the Breakthrough Institute and a co-author of the Ecomodernist Manifesto.

Emma Kovak is a Senior Food and Agriculture Analyst at the Breakthrough Institute. Her work focuses on the environmental impacts of agricultural biotechnology and plant breeding. Emma earned her PhD in Plant Biology from UC Berkeley.