David Rejeski
Director , Science and Technology Innovation Program
Director, Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies

Phone: 202/691-4255
Email: david.rejeski@wilsoncenter.org

Affiliation Director, Science and Technology Innovation Program Expertise Technology policy/assessment; nanotechnology; environmental policy; strategic planning; computer/video game technology Experience Visiting fellow, Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies; executive director, Environmental Technology Task Force, White House Council on Environmental Quality; White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; head, Future Studies Unit, Environmental Protection Agency

Major Publications | Biography | Education | Honors

Major Publications

• "The Molecular Economy," Environmental Forum, January/February 2010
  
• "Who Needs Futurists When You Have The World’s Fair," November, 2007
  
• "Overseeing the Unseeable," (with Terry Davies), Environmental Forum, November/December 2007
  
• "A Very, Very Small Opportunity: How Science and Society Can Avoid A Collision Over Nanotechnology," Orion Magazine, July/August 2007
  
• "Why We Need a Corporation for Public Gaming," Gamasutra (Serious Games Source), April, 2006
  
• "Open Source Technology Assessment or eTA (discussion paper March, 2005)
  
• Has Futurism Failed?" (with Bob Olson), Wilson Quarterly, Winter, 2006
  
• "How New Environmental Technologies Can Stimulate Economic Growth," Progressive Policy Institute, November, 2004
  
• "The Future of Sensors," Earth Observation Magazine, October 2004
  
• Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow: Shaping the Next Industrial Revolution (edited with Robert Olson) (Island Press, 2004)
  
• "Four Nanotech Scenarios," Presentation at the Institute of Medicine, May 27, 2004;
  
• "The Next Small Thing," Environmental Forum, March/April 2004
  
• "Making Policy in a Moore's Law World," Interview in Ubiquity Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 42, December 17 - December 23, 2003
  
• "E-Commerce, the Internet, and the Environment" (with Reid Lifset, co-editor), A Special Issue of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, MIT Press, Vol. 6, Issue 2.
  
• “Long-Term Goals for Governments“, (with Carly Wobig), Foresight, Volume 4, Number 6, 2002.
  
• “S&T Challenges in the 21st Century: Strategy and Tempo” (forthcoming), 2003 AAAS S&T Policy Yearbook, Washington, DC: American Association for the Advancement of Science.
  
• “Gaming Our Way to a Better Future,” The Adrenaline Vault, September 23, 2002.
  
• "Anticipations,"in Pamlin, Dennis (Ed.): Sustainability at the Speed of Light, Sweden: World Wildlife Fund, 2002.
• "Exploring the Genomics Frontier," Risk Policy Report, August 20, 2002.
  
• "Changes in Pollution and the Implications for Policy," (with Jim Salzman) in: Dietz, T. & Stern, P. (Eds): New Tools for Environmental Protection, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2002.
  
• "Searching for Comets: A Commentary on the National Intelligence Council's Global 2015 Report" Environmental Change and Security Project Report, Summer 2001.
  
• Our Future - Our Environment, (co-edited with Noreen Clancy), Santa Monica, CA: RAND. March, 2001.
  
• "Ecological Computing," (with John Seely Brown), The Industry Standard, December 25, 2000.
  
• "Electronic Impact," The Environmental Forum, July/August 1999.
  
• "Environmental Policy in the Age of Genetics," (with Wendy Yap), Issues in Science and Technology, Fall 1998.
  
• "Metrics, Systems, and Technological Choices," in: Richards, Deanna (Ed.): The Industrial Green Game, Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 1997.
  
• "Getting into the Swing," Technology Review, January 1997.

Biography
David Rejeski directs the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies. For the past four years he has been the Director of the Foresight and Governance Project at the Woodrow Wilson Center, an initiative designed to facilitate better long-term thinking and planning in the public sector.

He was a Visiting Fellow at Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and an agency representative (from EPA) to the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ). Before moving to CEQ, he worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology (OSTP) on a variety of technology and R&D issues, including the development and implementation of the National Environmental Technology Initiative.

Before moving to OSTP, he was head of the Future Studies Unit at the Environmental Protection Agency. He spent four years in Hamburg, Germany, working for the Environmental Agency, Department of Public Health, and Department of Urban Renewal and, in the late 1970’s, founded and co-directed a non-profit involved in energy conservation and renewable energy technologies.

He has written extensively on science, technology, and policy issues, in areas ranging from genetics to electronic commerce and pervasive computing and is the co-editor of the recent book: Environmentalism and the Technologies of Tomorrow: Shaping the Next Industrial Revolution, Island Press 2004.

He sits on the advisory boards of a number of organizations, including the EPA’s Science Advisory Board, the Greening of Industry Network, the Journal of Industrial Ecology, and the University of Michigan’s Corporate Environmental Management Program. He is a member of the External Advisory Board of Nanologue, a European project to bring together leading researchers to facilitate an international dialogue on the social, ethical and legal benefits and potential impacts of nanosciences and nanotechnologies. He has graduate degrees in public administration and environmental design from Harvard and Yale.

Education
M.P.A, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University; M.E.D., Yale University School of Architecture; B.F.A., Rhode Island School of Design

Honors
Visiting Fellow, Yale University School of Forestry and Environmental Studies