Prof. Paul Anastas

Speaking on Sustainable Innovations through Green Chemistry


Prof. Paul T. Anastas
Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment

Recently ICIS rated John Warner, President and Chief Technology Officer of the Warner Block Institute for Green Chemistry and Prof. Paul Anastas, Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale, among the top 40 influential people impacting the global chemistry industry. They together were ranked 38th on this list of 40 Top Power Players.  

Paul T. Anastas is Professor in the Practice of Green Chemistry with appointments in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies, Department of Chemistry, and Department of Chemical Engineering. In addition, Prof. Anastas serves as the Director of the Center for Green Chemistry and Green Engineering at Yale. From 2004 -2006, Paul Anastas served as Director of the Green Chemistry Institute in Washington, D.C. He was previously the Assistant Director for the Environment in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where he worked from 1999-2004. Trained as a synthetic organic chemist, Dr. Anastas received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and worked as an industrial consultant. He is credited with establishing the field of green chemistry during his time working for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as the Chief of the Industrial Chemistry Branch and as the Director of the U.S. Green Chemistry Program.

Dr. Anastas has published widely on topics of science through sustainability, such as the books Benign by Design, Designing Safer Polymers, Green Engineering, and his seminal work with co-author John Warner, Green Chemistry: Theory and Practice.