Tony Mills

Biography

M. Anthony (Tony) Mills is Associate Professor of the Practice at the John J. Reilly Center for Science, Technology, and Values as well as a senior fellow and founding director of the Center for Technology, Science, and Energy at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). His research concerns the federal government’s role in science and innovation, the relationship between scientific expertise and democratic governance, and the ethical, societal, and policy implications of science and technology. Mills is concurrently a senior fellow at Pepperdine University’s School of Public Policy, an affiliated scholar of the Consortium for Science, Policy & Outcomes, Arizona State University, and a scholar associate of the Society of Catholic Scientists. He also serves as a Member of the Standing Committee on Advancing Science Communication at the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine.

Previously, Mills was a senior fellow at the R Street Institute, where he also launched and led a program on science policy and served as associate vice president for policy, and worked for numerous publications, including The New Atlantis, Big Questions Online, and RealClear Media Group. His writings have appeared in such publications as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Politico, National Affairs, and Issues in Science and Technology, as well as various peer-reviewed journals. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled The Establishment of Science: The Historical Roots of Today’s Crisis of Scientific Legitimacy (with Oxford University Press).

Mills holds a PhD and an MA in philosophy from the University of Notre Dame and a BA in philosophy, French, and comparative literature from Northwestern University, where he also completed a concurrent MA in French.