Ray C. Anderson Foundation Names Michael Molitor as Senior Fellow

Atlanta, GA, April 1, 2016— Michael Molitor, an academic and consultant, has been named a senior fellow of the Ray C. Anderson Foundation.

“The market undervalues sustainable business practices as they are evaluated by a flawed model of both growth and prosperity”—it’s a quote that sounds like it could have come from Ray Anderson but instead comes from Michael Molitor.

“Michael’s circular economy thinking picks up right where Ray’s model for sustainable business left off,” said John Lanier, executive director of the Foundation. “He’s a fresh voice with a clear vision for how overall resource productivity and disruptive innovation will play a role in creating the conditions for a prosperous circular economy to emerge.”

In his capacity as a senior fellow, Molitor will contribute to the Foundation’s knowledge base and also create and share original content, author white papers and serve as a spokesperson for the concepts he is exploring.

Molitor is currently a visiting professor in the International Energy Masters program at Institut d'études politiques de Paris in Paris, France. He has completed a Ford Foundation post-doctoral fellowship at Harvard University, a PhD from Cambridge University, a joint MSc between the London School of Economics and Imperial College and a BA from the University of Michigan. 

He has held full-time academic appointments at the University of California (Berkeley and San Diego), Columbia University, Carleton College and a part-time position at Stanford University.