Dave Rejeski

David Rejeski is a Visiting Scholar at the Environmental Law Institute, where he works primarily on an initiative with the Yale School of the Environment and the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment at UC Berkeley to improve our understanding of the energy and environmental impacts of the digital economy. He served for over a decade as director of the Science, Technology and Innovation Program at the Woodrow Wilson Center, where his work focused on understanding emerging technologies, their underlying innovation ecosystems, as well as their impacts and implications for public policy and governance. Study areas included synthetic biology, nanotechnology, and additive manufacturing. Prior to the Wilson Center, he worked at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) on a range of topics including the development and implementation of the National Environmental Technology Strategy, the National Recycling Strategy, and the Greening of the White House Initiative. He spent three years heading up the Future Studies Unit at the Environmental Protection Agency (Office of Policy, Planning and Evaluation).