Steven Koonin

Steven Koonin holds appointments in NYU’s business and engineering schools. Before NYU, he was undersecretary for science at the US Department of Energy. Previously, Koonin had spent five years as BP’s chief scientist, helping to move the firm into renewable energy. He was a professor of theoretical physics at Caltech from 1975 to 2004, the last nine years as Caltech’s vice president and provost. Koonin is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and the JASON group, a governor of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Institute for Defense Analyses, and a senior fellow at Stanford’s Hoover Institution. He is the author of Unsettled: What Climate Science Tells Us, What It Doesn’t, and Why It Matters.