Ian Bowles, senior research fellow with the Environment and Natural Resources Program and the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs (BCSIA) at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government, has been named executive director of the Massachusetts Institute for a New Commonwealth (MassINC). The Boston-based, non-partisan think tank advocates policies promoting the growth and vitality of the middle class in Massachusetts. Bowles will also serve as publisher of the Institute’s quarterly magazine, Commonwealth, which covers the state’s politics, ideas and civic life. He starts his new position on July 14.

In addition to his work at the Kennedy School, Bowles was most recently senior advisor and program director for the San Francisco-based Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, which supports projects in environmental conservation, scientific research, and higher education. Prior to coming to the Kennedy School, Bowles served in the Clinton White House as senior director of environmental affairs at the National Security Council and as associate director for the global environment at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

Bowles has also served as vice president for conservation policy at Conservation International and as a legislative assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives. The author of numerous articles on environmental, energy and economic policy issues, he is also the co-editor of Footprints in the Jungle (Oxford University Press, 2001), about natural resource industries and the environment. In 1996, he was a candidate for Congress from the Massachusetts 10th District. A native of Falmouth, Massachusetts, he holds an A.B. in Economics cum laude from Harvard College.

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Ian Bowles is a Senior Research Fellow in the ENRP and STPP programs at the Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He is also a Senior Advisor and Environment Program Director for the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Until 2001, he served concurrently as Senior Director of Environmental Affairs at the National Security Council and as Associate Director for the Global Environment at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. In these capacities, he chaired or co-chaired interagency policy making committees on biotechnology, international economic policy and the environment, climate change and other global environmental issues. He was also appointed by President Clinton to the Enterprise for the Americas Board and was a member of the President's delegations for the 2000 G-8 Summit in Okinawa, Japan, the 1999 WTO Ministerial meeting, and state visits to India and New Zealand. Prior to joining the White House staff, he served as Vice President for Conservation Policy at Conservation International and, prior to that, as a Legislative Assistant in the U.S. House of Representatives where he worked on foreign policy, national security and global environmental issues. He recently co-edited Footprints in the Jungle (Oxford University Press, 2001), a book about natural resource industries and the environment and has also published several dozen articles on environmental, energy and economic policy issues. He is a native of Falmouth, Massachusetts and was a candidate for Congress from the Massachusetts 10th District in 1996. He holds an A.B. in Economics cum laude from Harvard College. His current research relates to United States policy on international conservation issues and global climate change.

Ian is the son of Margaret (Mardi) Clowes Bowles ’65, and the grandson of Margaret Jackson Clowes ’37.  The Clowes Fund established the term professorship previously held by Ann Herzig.