President, Emeritus and Bing Professor
of Environmental Science and Policy,
Emeritus; Senior Fellow by courtesy
Department
Biological Sciences, Institute for International Studies
Other Affiliations
Editor-in-Chief, Science Magazine
Research Interests
Interdisciplinary studies on the development of policies regarding such
transboundary environmental problems as: major land-use changes; economically
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,
conducted through the Center for Environmental Science and Policy at the
Institute for International Studies, entails policy on such transboundary
environmental problems as: major land-use changes; economically driven
alterations in agricultural practice; global climate change; and the
development of regulatory policies.
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, and as a founding Director of the Health Effects Institute. He currently serves as director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and as Co-Chair of the National Academies' Project on Science, Technology and Law.
SIIS Events
Science, politics, and the environment: a snapshot 5/29/2003
Environmental Change and Conflict Liability 5/28/2002
Science, politics and the human genome 4/19/2001
SIIS Publications
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The Candidates' Views on Science, Donald Kennedy (2004)
Valuing Nature, Lawrence H Goulder, Donald Kennedy (2000)
Rubber, Blight, and Mosquitoes: Biogeography Meets the Global Economy, Donald
Kennedy, Majorie Lucks (1999)
"How to Pay for a Good College," Review of The Student Aid Game by
Michael S. McPherson and Morton O. Schapiro, Donald Kennedy (1998)
Research Misconduct: Media Exaggerate Results of a Survey, Donald Kennedy,
Sharoni Shafir (1998)