Exxon's early research into climate change was revealed in a 2014 email from
a former company scientist that
Not exact matches
The
company announced plans to make its own therapeutics, hiring a
former top Genentech
scientist to lead the effort.
It's worth noting the team that brought the
company to this point are all still on board: founder Michel Laberge is chief
scientist (and will be recounting some of his adventures in fusion research at the upcoming TED conference in Vancouver in March);
former CEO Doug Richardson is chief technology officer, in charge of the research team; and
former chairman Michael Brown remains a director.
It doesn't take a rocket
scientist, or even a corporate governance expert, to understand that having a
former Ontario premier on a
company's board can offer plenty of potential upside, especially for an Ontario - based auto parts maker such as Magna International.
In Peak Performance, Brad Stulberg, a
former McKinsey and
Company consultant and writer who covers health and the science of human performance, and Steve Magness, a performance
scientist and coach of Olympic athletes, team up to demystify these practices and make them accessible to everyone.
As a
former NASA
scientist and astronaut, Dr. Bernard Harris brings unique insights on leading innovative
companies to fuel the future of commerce and beyond.
David had also come across a speech by
former BP chief executive, Lord Browne, in which he spoke of the warnings
company scientists had sounded about climate change, and how their arguments convinced him that it was wrong to side with climate denial.
Last December, the U.S. government dropped charges against two
former Eli Lilly and
Company scientists in Indiana.
Do your homework: Interview professors, current employees,
former employees, and interns to learn what the
company values in its
scientists.
These
companies strictly enforced non-disclosure agreements so that
former employees couldn't work for competitors and prohibited their
scientists from publishing peer - reviewed articles.
Other Gladstone
scientists will serve as scientific partners (Katherine Pollard, PhD, Todd McDevitt, PhD, Nevan Krogan, PhD) or founding employees of the
company, including Kathy Ivey, PhD,
former director of the Gladstone Stem Cell Core and the new director of research operations at Tenaya.
«The fact that Dr. Tim Block and other world - class
scientists have chosen to join the Blumberg Institute in its drive to find a cure for hepatitis B speaks volumes about the Institute's cutting - edge science and potential to impact global health,» said Wayne Yetter,
former president and CEO of the multinational pharmaceutical
company Novartis U.S. and a recent addition to the Hepatitis B Foundation's Board of Directors.
Lewis M. Branscomb, chief
scientist of the International Business Machines Corporation, chairman; Alan K. Campbell, executive vice president of ara Inc., Philadelphia; Mary Hatwood Futrell, president, National Education Association; John W. Gardner,
former Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare and founder of the Independent Sector; Fred M. Hechinger, president of the New York Times
Company Foundation Inc.; Bill Honig, California's superintendent of public instruction; James B. Hunt,
former governor...
Set deep in the heart of the Amazonian jungle, State of Wonder tells the story of Dr. Marina Singh, a research
scientist with a pharmaceutical
company dispatched to Brazil to track down her
former mentor, Dr. Annick Swenson.
Scientist Who Spearheaded Attacks on Global Warming Science Also Directed $ 45 Million Tobacco Industry Effort to Hide Health Impacts of Smoking
Former National Academy of Sciences President Admits Being Paid $ 585,000 by Tobacco
Companies.
The group's members included senior
scientists and engineers from nearly every major U.S. and multinational oil and gas
company, including Exxon, Mobil, Amoco, Phillips, Texaco, Shell, Sunoco, and Sohio, according to internal documents obtained by InsideClimate News and interviews with the task force's
former director.
The Times story inaccurately says that
former Exxon
scientist Duane Levine told the board of directors that the
company «should emphasize the doubt.»
Moreover, by applying the term «denial» (with all its loaded undertones) to sceptical
scientists; by referring to them inaccurately as «well funded» by the oil industry; and by likening those who stress the uncertainties of climate science to unprincipled lobbyists for tobacco
companies, Lord May enters on the field of personal vilification — not a suitable place for a distinguished
former President of the Royal Society.
Writing in Harper's Magazine in 1995,
former Boston Globe reporter Ross Gelbspan called Lindzen a «hood ornament» for the fossil fuels industry, alleging that the
scientist once received $ 2,500 a day in consulting fees from oil and gas
companies.
Leading climate
scientists such as Michael Oppenheimer and Robert Watson, environmentalists from Exxpose Exxon, Greenpeace and other organizations join with a
former Exxon executive, US government whistle - blower Rick Piltz, and leading authors such as Bill McKibben, Elizabeth Kolbert, and Ross Gelbspan to explain how we have gotten to this challenging place, with the climate, and the influence of the world's largest
company out of balance.
The
company has also instructed non-governmental groups, including the Union of Concerned
Scientists, to keep communications related to climate change they have had with the attorneys generals coalition, other environmental groups,
former Vice President Al Gore and the media.
CFC industry
companies hired the world's largest public relations firm, Hill & Knowlton, who organized a month - long U.S. speaking tour in 1975 for noted British
scientist Richard Scorer, a
former editor of the International Journal of Air Pollution and author of several books on pollution.
Rafiq Mohammadi, also a co-founder and
former CTO of iManage, is returning to the
company as Chief
Scientist.
Dr. Anup Ghosh, CEO of the security
company Invincea and a
former DARPA
scientist, noted that the leaked emails may not have originated from the hack of the DNC itself, since the DNC used a third party email service.