Michael Rodemeyer
Senior Adviser
Michael Rodemeyer was the Executive Director of the Pew Initiative on Food and Biotechnology from 2000-2005 and served as its senior consultant until 2007. Presently, he is an independent consultant on science and technology policy and teaches at the University of Virginia.
Before that, Mr. Rodemeyer spent nearly 25 years in the federal government. In 1998 and 1999, Mr. Rodemeyer was the Assistant Director for Environment in the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President, with responsibility for numerous environmental science and policy issues. Mr. Rodemeyer also served for fifteen years on the staff of the U.S. Congress House Committee on Science, including nine years as the Chief Democratic Counsel. From 1976 through 1984, Mr. Rodemeyer was a staff attorney with the Federal Trade Commission, where he worked on consumer protection and economic regulation issues. He has also taught Congressional and environmental policymaking at the Johns Hopkins University’s Zanvyl Krieger School of Arts and Sciences and has lectured widely on biotechnology and other science, law, and technology issues.
Mr. Rodemeyer graduated with honors from Harvard Law School in 1975 and received his undergraduate degree in sociology with honors from Princeton University in 1972.
