Daniel Sarewitz is director of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes, and professor in the School of Life Sciences and Department of Geological Sciences at Arizona State University.

His work focuses on the ways that social outcomes derive from political and policy decisions about science and technology. Sarewitz's most recent book is Living with the Genie: Essays on Technology and the Quest for Human Mastery (co-edited with Alan Lightman and Christina Desser; Island Press, 2003). Sarewitz founded CSPO in 1999 while working for Columbia University. Prior to that he was the director of the Geological Society of America's Institute for Environmental Education. From 1989 to 1993 he worked on Capitol Hill, first as a Congressional Science Fellow, and then as science consultant to the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Before moving into the policy arena he was a research associate in the Department of Geological Sciences at Cornell University, with field areas in the Philippines, Argentina, and Tajikistan.

Sarewitz received his Ph.D. in geological sciences from Cornell University in 1986.

• Scientizing Politics - A Review of Chris Mooney's Book "The Republican War on Science" (April 19, 2006)