Board of Academic and Scientific Advisors

Marcelo Alonso, Ph.D., Department of Physics and Space Science, Florida Institute of Technology

Bruce N. Ames, Ph.D., Department of Biochemistry, University of California, Berkeley

Sallie Baliunas, Ph.D., Staff Scientist, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics

Robert C. Balling, Jr., Ph.D., Office of Climatology, Arizona State University

Roger Bate, Ph.D., Economist, Institute of Economic Affairs, London

E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Historical Theology and Social Ethics, Knox Theological Seminary

James Bennett, Ph.D., Professor of Economics, George Mason University

Ben Bolch, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Economics, Rhodes College

James Bovard, Free-Lance Author

Gilbert Brown, Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, University of Lowell, Massachusetts

Bernard Cohen, Ph.D., Department of Physics, University of Pittsburgh

Joseph D. DeLuca, Biotechnology Laboratory Specialist, Yale University School of Medicine

Thomas DiLorenzo, Ph.D., Department of Economics, Loyola College, Maryland

Hugh Ellsaesser, Ph.D., Meteorologist (Ret.), Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 

Michael Fumento, Senior Fellow, Hudson Insitute

Howard Hayden, Ph.D., Department of Physics, Emeritus, University of Connecticut, Storrs

Andrew P. Hull, Ph.D., Senior Health Physicist, Safety and Environmental Protection, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Sherwood B. Idso, Ph.D., President, Institute for Biospheric Research, Tempe, Arizona

Edward S. Josephson, Ph.D., Biological Sciences (Ret.), University of Rhode Island

Jacqueline Kasun, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Economics, Humbolt State University 

Kelvin Kemm, Ph.D., Nuclear Engineering, STRATEK, Pretoria, South Africa

Gerald R. Kleinfeld, Ph.D., Director, Consortium for Atlantic Studies, Arizona State University

Manfred Kroger, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Food Science, Pennsylvania State University

William H. Lash, III, Professor of Law, George Mason University School of Law

Tung-Ching Lee, Ph.D., Department of Food Sciences, Rutgers University

Leon Louw, Executive Director, Free Market Foundation of South Africa

David Maillie, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of Biophysics, University of Rochester

Patrick J. Michaels, Ph.D., Virginia State Climatologist, University of Virginia

A. Alan Moghissi, Ph.D., President, Institute for Regulatory Science

Eric Mood, Ph.D., Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University School of Medicine

Kenneth L. Mossman, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology, Arizona State University

Robert W. Poole, President, Reason Foundatio

Harry N.A. Priem, Ph.D., Professor of Isotope and Planetary Geology, Utrecht University, Netherland

Michael Sanera, Ph.D., Director, Center for Environmental Education Research

Frederic Seitz, Ph.D., President Emeritus, Rockefeller University

Fr. Robert A. Sirico, President, Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty

James H. Steele, D.V.M., M.P.H., Assistant Surgeon General (Ret.), School of Public Health, University of Texas, Houston

Ruthann Swanson, Ph.D., Department of Foods and Nutrition, University of Georgia

Erwin Tucker, President, Council for Environmental Balance

Gerd-Rainer Weber, Ph.D., Consulting Meteorologist, Essen, Germany

Elizabeth Whelan, Sc.D., M.P.H., President, American Council on Science and Health

David Rothbard and Craig Rucker currently serve, respectively, as president and executive director of the Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), a leading public-interest organization they co-founded in 1985 that is on the cutting edge of today's environmental debate.

With the support of more than 40 internationally-recognized scientists and experts, and the backing of some 40,000 citizen supporters nationwide, Rothbard and Rucker are two of the primary voices seeking to provide positive market-oriented and technological solutions to current concerns relating to environment and development.

Based in Washington, D.C., Rothbard and Rucker are often called upon to provide expertise to a wide range of government, media, and industry forums, and have been active participants in various international meetings including recent United Nations summits in Cairo, Istanbul, Kyoto, Bonn, Marrakesh, Buenos Aires, Cancun, and The Hague.

They are frequent guests on radio and television talk shows across America, and their informative articles have been printed or critiqued in such important publications as USA Today, Newsweek, the Houston Chronicle, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Washington Times, and The Wall Street Journal.

Rothbard and Rucker also co-host a daily national radio commentary called "Just the Facts" that has been airing for twelve years on some 200 radio stations from coast to coast. Their work has been termed "invaluable" by the Arizona Republic, they have been lauded for their "effort to bring sound science to the environmental debate" by a former president of the National Academy of Sciences, and been praised by a respected Boston Globe columnist for "a record of supplying absolutely solid information."

A native of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Rothbard received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Fairfield University and now resides near Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and three daughters. Rucker is a native of Buffalo, New York, and received his Masters of Public Administration from the State University of New York at Albany. He has four sons, and currently resides in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.