Huxley's dean appointed to EPA advisory council

Bellingham Business Journal, Nov, 2007

Bradley Smith, dean of Huxley College of the Environment at Western Washington University, has been appointed to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy and Technology (NACEPT), which advises the EPA on domestic and international policy issues.

EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson appointed Smith to a two-year term on the board this past spring. NACEPT members represent a range of interests, including academia, business and industry, community-based organizations and state and tribal interests. Representing the environmental education community, Smith will attend his first meeting in November.

Smith has written extensively on environmental issues and policy and was the first director of the Office of Environmental Education for the EPA. He has served as a senior environmental advisor to General Motors Corp. and as an external evaluator for the U.S. Department of Energy. Formerly, Smith served as an appointed member of President Clinton's Council for Sustainable Development.

He earned his doctorate in 1981 from the University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment. He has been a Fulbright Scholar to England and a NATO Fellow and holds adjunct faculty positions in Russia, China, Holland, England and Japan.