Science, Environment and Development Group

Dr. Paul Anastas
Center for International Development
at Harvard University
Kennedy School of Government
Office 505, Rubenstein Building
79 JFK Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
USA
Tel: (1) 617-496-9330
Fax: (1) 617-496-8753
Email: Paul_Anastas@ksg.harvard.edu
Group affiliation: Senior Research Fellow

Paul Anastas is a Senior Research Fellow at Harvard’s Center for International Development, Director of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C., and a Roy Fellow at the Environment and Natural Resources Program at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was Assistant Director for Environment at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) from 1999-2004 where his responsibilities covered a wide range of environmental science issues including furthering international public-private cooperation in areas of science for sustainability such as Green Chemistry. Anastas served as the Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from 1989-1998. During that period he was responsible for regulatory review of industrial chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act and the development of rules, policy and guidance. In 1991, he established the industry-government-university partnership Green Chemistry Program, which was expanded to include basic research, and the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Awards. Prior to joining the EPA, he worked as an industrial consultant to the chemical industry in the development of analytical and synthetic chemical methodologies. Anastas received his MA and PhD in Organic Chemistry from Brandeis University and his BS in Chemistry from the University of Massachusetts at Boston.