Ted Halstead was an American author, policy entrepreneur, and public speaker who founded four non-profit think tanks and advocacy organizations: the Climate Leadership Council, Americans for Carbon Dividends, New America, and Redefining Progress.
11 Facts About Ted Halstead
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Ted Halstead's articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Fortune, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, National Review, and the Harvard Business Review, among other publications.
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Ted Halstead was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in Switzerland.
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Ted Halstead received his MPA in 1998 from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he was a Montgomery Fellow.
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Ted Halstead was the founder, chairman, and CEO of the Climate Leadership Council, which promotes carbon dividends as a cost-effective, politically viable, and equitable way to reduce carbon pollution.
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In 1993, at age 25, Ted Halstead founded Redefining Progress, an environmental economics think tank based in San Francisco, with a $15,000 seed grant from Echoing Green.
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Ted Halstead stepped down as Executive Director of Redefining Progress in 1997, moving into a position on the board.
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Ted Halstead founded New America in 1999, at the age of 30, and served as founding President and CEO until 2007.
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Ted Halstead began his speech by naming three barriers to climate progress: psychological, geopolitical, and partisan.
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Ted Halstead argued that the conservative carbon dividends plan that he co-wrote with leading Republican statesmen can overcome each of these barriers.
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Ted Halstead died in Spain on September 2,2020, when he fell 30 meters while hiking.