Dan Blaustein-Rejto

Dan Blaustein-Rejto is the Director of Food & Agriculture at the Breakthrough Institute, a think tank that identifies and promotes technological solutions to environmental and human development challenges. He researches and advocates for ways public policy can support environmentally and socially beneficial innovations such as methane-reducing cattle feeds and alternative proteins. Dan is the lead author of reports on how to reduce cattle’s land and carbon footprint and has recently published peer-reviewed analyses of the potential impacts of plant-based meat on livestock producers. He serves as a judge for the XPRIZE Feed the Next Billion competition and his work has been featured in the Agri-Pulse, Foreign Policy, The Hill, Bloomberg, and other publications. Dan has a Masters in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelors from Brown University.