Braden R. Allenby is currently Lincoln Professor of Engineering and Ethics, and a professor of civil and environmental engineering, and of law, at Arizona State University, where he is also the Founding Chair of the Consortium for Emerging Technology, Military Operations, and National Security, established in 2009, and Founding Director of the Center for Earth Systems Engineering and Management.

He moved from his previous position as the Environment, Health and Safety Vice President for AT&T in 2004. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a U. S. Naval Academy Stockdale Fellow for 2009/2010; an AT&T Industrial Ecology Fellow for 2008/2009; a Batten Fellow in Residence at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration; a Fellow of the British Royal Society for the Arts, Manufactures & Commerce; and was a Templeton Research Fellow in 2008/2010. He has previously been an adjunct professor at the University of Virginia’s School of Engineering and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, and a visiting lecturer in ethics at Princeton Theological Seminary.

From 1995 to 1997, he was Director for Energy and Environmental Systems at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, on temporary assignment from his position as Research Vice President, Technology and Environment, for AT&T. He graduated cum laude from Yale University in 1972, received his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia Law School in 1978, his Masters in Economics from the University of Virginia in 1979, his Masters in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers University in the Spring of 1989, and his Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences from Rutgers in 1992.

Dr. Allenby is a member of the Virginia Bar, and has worked as an attorney for the Civil Aeronautics Board and the Federal Communications Commission, as well as a strategic consultant on economic and technical telecommunications issues. He joined AT&T in 1983 as a telecommunications regulatory attorney, and was an environmental attorney and Senior Environmental Attorney for AT&T from 1984 to 1993.

During 1992, he was the J. Herbert Holloman Fellow at the National Academy of Engineering in Washington, DC. He is Chair of the IEEE Presidential Sustainability Initiative; past chair of the IEEE Technical Committee on Electronics and the Environment; past President of the International Society for Industrial Ecology; member and past Chair of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Committee on Science, Engineering, and Public Policy; a member of the Advisory Board of the University of Virginia Engineering Division of Technology, Culture and Communications; a member of the Advisory Board of Engineers Without Borders (USA); Emeritus member of the University of Michigan Erb Environmental Management Institute Advisory Board; a Trustee of the National Environmental Education and Training Foundation; associate editor-in-chief of Sustainability Science; a member of the editorial boards of The Journal of Industrial Ecology, the Environmental Law Institute Forum, The Journal of Sustainable Product Design, The Bulletin of Science, Technology and Society, Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy, and Environmental Quality Management; and a former member of the Secretary of Energy's Advisory Board, the Scientific Advisory Board of the DoE/DoD/EPA Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program, and the DOE Task Force on Alternative Futures for the DOE National Laboratories.