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Donald Kennedy, PhD President, Emeritus and Bing Professor of Environmental Science and Policy, Emeritus; Senior Fellow by courtesy Address Encina Hall East, E401 Stanford University Stanford, CA 94305 Mail Code: 6055 Phone (650) 725-2745 Fax (650) 725-1992 Email kennedyd@.stanford.edu Departments Biological Sciences, Woods Institute for the Environment Other Affiliations Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine (2000-2008) Research Interests Interdisciplinary studies on the development of policies regarding major land-use changes; economically-or climate-driven alterations in agricultural practice; global climate change; and the development of regulatory policies. Biography Donald Kennedy received AB and Ph.D. degrees in biology from Harvard and has served on the faculty of Stanford University from 1960 to the present. He served as Chair of the Department of Biology from 1964-1972, and as Director of the Program in Human Biology from 1973-1977. He was Commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration from 1977-79 and President of Stanford University from 1980 to 1992. His present research program (see above) is conducted as a Senior Fellow of the Woods Institute for the Environment. Prof. Kennedy is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. He served on the National Commission for Public Service and the Carnegie Commission on Science, Technology and Government, as a founding Director of the Health Effects Institute, as a Director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as Co-Chair of the National Academies' Project on Science, Technology and Law. |