Al Hammond

Allen Hammond is Vice President for Innovation and Special Projects at the World Resources Institute, a non-profit, non-partisan policy research institute located in Washington, D.C. He is also Director of the Development Through Enterprise project and leads Base of the Pyramid initiatives institute-wide. He consults on private sector strategies for BOP markets with foundations, development agencies, and a number of major corporations. He is principal author of The Next 4 Billion, a landmark study of BOP markets. He has written or co-authored over 150 articles and 10 books, including Which World?: Scenarios for the 21st Century, focused on long-term sustainability issues. Dr. Hammond holds degrees from Stanford University and Harvard University in engineering and applied mathematics.

 

Prior to joining WRI, he helped to edit the international journal Science and went on to found and edit several national publications, including Science 80-86 (published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science), Issues in Science and Technology (published by the National Academy of Science), and the Information Please Environmental Almanac (published by Houghton-Mifflin). In addition, he broadcast a daily radio program for 5 years (syndicated nationally by CBS) and has written or edited 10 books.

 

Dr. Hammond has published extensively in the scientific, policy research, and business literature, including recent articles in Foreign Affairs (“Digitally Empowered Development,” March, 2001) and the Harvard Business Review (“Serving the World’s Poor, Profitably,” September, 2002); has lectured widely; and has served as a consultant to the White House science office, to several U.S. federal agencies, to the United Nations, and to several private foundations. Among other pursuits, he is a skier and small boat sailor.