NDN announces new Green Project directed by new Fellow Michael Moynihan

NDN is excited to announce the launch of a new initiative that will seek to develop a legislative, regulatory and advocacy framework to address climate change, end energy dependency, and accelerate the development of green technologies to promote economic growth. This initiative, the Green Project (working title), will position NDN as a bridge between key stakeholders such as the new clean technology community and public leaders as we build a post-carbon economy.

We are also pleased to announce that Michael Moynihan, our new NDN Fellow at the Globalization Initiative, will direct the Green Project. Many of you may already be familiar with Michael's contributions to NDN. This fall he released an original paper for NDN on public investment in infrastructure and recently blogged on Sen. Obama’s support for a National Infrastructure Bank. In his paper, Michael called upon the U.S. government to commit America to a series of environmental goals that would simultaneously green America’s infrastructure and drive important advances in environmental technologies. As an NDN Fellow, Michael will build on these recommendations at a time when environmental issues are rising to the top of the global agenda.

Michael brings to NDN significant policy experience. He is currently a PhD candidate and William Bowen Merit Fellow at The Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and on the faculty of New York University’s Real Estate Institute. In 1999, he founded the first Internet video sharing community and website, AlwaysonTV, pioneering such innovations as personal video channels and video greetings. From 1996 to 1999, Michael served in the Clinton Administration where he held the Internet portfolio and advised Secretaries Rubin and Summers as Senior Advisor for Electronic Commerce. While in the Clinton Administration, he led successful efforts to pass the Internet Tax Freedom Act, helped negotiate e-commerce agreements on payments, taxation and other issues with the EU and Japan, and oversaw the e-commerce efforts of Treasury’s 140,000 employees. Prior to assuming the Internet portfolio, he advised Secretaries Rubin and Summers on a variety of other issues including managing debt crises, reforming the global financial architecture, balancing the budget and modernizing the IRS.

Michael has also been a fellow of the Center for Strategic and International Studies and was the Robert C. Seamans Fellow in Technology and Public Policy at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He holds degrees from Columbia and Harvard.

Michael is the author of the critically acclaimed book, The Coming American Renaissance (Simon & Schuster) and other books. His writing has appeared in Harper’s, The New York Times, The Washington Post and other publications.

Please join us in welcoming Michael on board!