Ted Halstead
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| Born | July 25, 1968 Chicago, Illinois |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | Bachelor's from Dartmouth College and Master’s Degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government |
| Alma mater | Dartmouth College, Harvard University |
| Known for | Author, public speaker, think tank founder |
Ted Halstead (born July 25, 1968) is an American author, policy entrepreneur and public speaker who has founded three public policy think tanks, including the Climate Leadership Council and New America. His areas of expertise include climate policy, economic policy, environmental policy, healthcare and political reform, among others.
Halstead has published numerous articles and two books, including The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics (co-authored with Michael Lind). His articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Financial Times, Fortune, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, National Review, the Los Angeles Times and the Harvard Business Review, among other publications.
Halstead was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. From 2008 to 2012, he and his wife Veronique Bardach sailed around the world, with only their dog as crew.
Halstead earned his bachelor's degree in 1990 from Dartmouth College, where he graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in philosophy. He received his MPA in 1998 from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he was a Montgomery Fellow.
Halstead is the founder, President and CEO of the Climate Leadership Council, an international research and advocacy organization whose mission is to mobilize global opinion leaders around the most effective, popular and equitable climate solutions.
As a central part of its mission, the Climate Leadership Council develops and promotes new policy frameworks based on carbon dividends—carbon taxes whose proceeds are returned to citizens in the form of dividends—adapted to each of the world’s largest greenhouse gas emitting regions. Currently active in Washington and London, the Council intends to expand to Berlin, Beijing and New Delhi next.
The Council was soft-launched on May 19, 2016, with the publication of Halstead’s white paper, “Unlocking the Climate Puzzle.” This report summarizes the economic, geopolitical and psychological reasons that climate progress is deadlocked, and suggests that a carbon dividends plan could overcome each of these barriers. It also explores why this proposal is well suited to our political moment, as it responds to five of today's defining trends: nationalism, inequality, populism, weak growth, and political polarization.
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