David Paul Clarke

David Paul Clarke is Senior Director of the American Chemistry Council's Science Policy Team. He has been with the Council since November 1998. Before that, from 1988 to 1998, he was a reporter, then editor and publisher, of the Environment Group, Inside Washington Publishers, and the founding editor of Risk Policy Report. In addition, he has published numerous freelance articles, including in Environmental Forum (Environmental Law Institute) Environmental Law (Northwestern School of Law, Lewis & Clark College), Issues in Science and Technology (National Academy of Sciences), and World of Biology, Environmental Encyclopedia (Gale Research, Inc.). He is currently a Board Member of Green Mountain Institute for Environmental Democracy, is an Editorial Advisory Board Member for the Environmental Law Institute's Environmental Forum, and a Contributing Editor, Society for Risk Analysis's RISK Newsletter. He has a BA, Professional/Technical Writing University of Maryland, and in addition has taken courses in risk analysis and cost-benefit analysis through the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis, The Center for Continuing Professional Education, and is enrolled in the Johns Hopkins University Part-Time Graduate Program working on a Masters in Government. He also studied Mandarin Chinese at the Taiwan Normal University. He was born and raised in Asia, but today lives in Bethesda, MD, with his wife and two teenage sons.