Dr. Pete Myers

A revolution in the environmental health sciences: New challenges to the safety of common chemicals in commerce.

John Peterson Myers is founder, CEO and Chief Scientist of Environmental
Health Sciences. Pete Myers holds a doctorate in the biological sciences from the UC Berkeley and a BA from Reed College. For a dozen years beginning in 1990, Myers served as Director of the W. Alton Jones Foundation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Along with co-authors Dr. Theo Colborn and Dianne Dumanoski, Myers wrote Our Stolen Future, a book (1996) that explores the scientific basis of concern for how contamination threatens fetal development. He has published the website OurStolenFuture.org since that book was published, synthesizing hundreds of scientific articles about endocrine disruption to make them accessible to the media and the lay public.

Myers is now actively involved in primary research on the impacts of endocrine
disruption on human health. He is on the boards of the John Heinz Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, the Environmental Grantmakers Association, the Jenifer Altman Foundation, the Earth Day Network and the Publication Education Center. Until its merger with Pew Charitable Trust in late 2007, he served as Board Chair of the National Environmental Trust. He has also served as Board President of the Consultative Group on Biological Diversity, an association of 40+ foundations supporting work on biodiversity, climate, energy and environmental health.

Myers is also an accomplished photographer, with two exhibits on display in March
2008, in Brandon, VT and Charlottesville, VA.