Ted Halstead

1992

Ted Halstead

Redefining Progress (RP)

http://www.rprogress.org

San Francisco, California, United States

Community Improvement & Economic Development, Environment

The Bold Idea:

Redefining Progress (RP) works with a broad array of partners to shift the economy and public policy towards sustainability. RP does this in three ways:

1. RP measures the real state of the economy, the environment, and social justice with tools like the Genuine Progress Indicator and the Ecological Footprint.
2. RP designs policies—like environmental tax reform—to shift behavior in these three domains (economy, environment, and equity) towards sustainability.
3. RP promotes and creates new frameworks—like common assets—to replace the ones that are taking society away from long-term social, economic, and environmental health.

Biography:

Ted Halstead, New America’s founder, served as the institution’s first president and CEO from its inception in 1999 until September, 2007. He is a frequent public speaker and media commentator, having appeared as a guest on Nightline, ABC’s World News Tonight, CNN, CNBC, C-SPAN, and PBS. He has published numerous articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Financial Times, The Atlantic Monthly, Los Angeles Times, and The Harvard Business Review. He is co-author with Michael Lind of The Radical Center: The Future of American Politics, and editor of The Real State of the Union
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Previously, Mr. Halstead was executive director of Redefining Progress, another public policy institute that he founded to promote new approaches to economic and environmental policy. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College, and received his Master’s degree from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. He was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.