To compete and thrive in the 21st century, democracies, and the United States in particular, must develop new national security and economic strategies that address the geopolitics of information. In the 20th century, market capitalist democracies geared infrastructure, energy, trade, and even social policy to protect and advance that era’s key source of power—manufacturing. In this century, democracies must better account for information geopolitics across all dimensions of domestic policy and national strategy.
Biography
David Keith has worked near the interface between climate science, energy technology, and public policy for twenty years. He took first prize in Canada's national physics prize exam, won the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's prize for excellence in experimental physics, and was listed as one of TIME magazine's Heroes of the Environment 2009 (article). David's academic appointments are at Harvard where he serves as the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and Professor of Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. David divides his time between Boston and Calgary where he serves as president of Carbon Engineering—a start-up company developing industrial scale technologies for capture of CO2 from ambient air.
Assistant: Xiomara Forbez
Email: xforbez@seas.harvard.edu
Telephone: 857-600-8131
Awards
Contact
Email: david_keith@harvard.edu
Phone: 403-775-6162
Mailing Address:
29 Oxford Street
School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Cambridge, Massachusetts