Ken Geiser, PhD

Kenneth Geiser is a Professor Emeritus of Work Environment and past Distinquished University Professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Dr. Geiser served as a founding Co-Director of the Lowell Center for Sustainable Production and as Director of the Massachusetts Toxics Use Reduction Institute from its founding in 1990 to 2003. His research and writing focus on cleaner production, toxic chemicals management, international chemicals policy, safer technologies, and green chemistry and, in 2001, he completed a book, Materials Matter: Towards a Sustainable Materials Policy published by MIT Press. As a recognized expert on environmental and occupational health policy, he has served on various advisory committees for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and the United Nations Environment Program and the governing boards of several environmental organizations, including Coming Clean, GreenPeace, Healthy Building Network, Clean Production Action, Story of Stuff, the Environmental Health Strategy Center and the International POPs Elimination Network. Recently, he co-authored the Global Chemicals Outlook and a “Chemicals in Products Project” for the United Nations, served as a Senior Fellow with the U.S. Green Building Council, and published a new book, Chemicals without Harm: Policies for a Sustainable World also available from MIT Press.