Biography
Jon Entine
E-mail: runjonrun@earthlink.net
Web Address: http://www.jonentine.com
Jon is an internationally respected author, consultant, and public policy expert focused on leadership, sustainability and science and society. He is an adjunct fellow at the American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research in Washington, D.C., a columnist for Ethical Corporation, and senior counselor on sustainability and corporate responsibility for Northlich, a Cincinnati-based brand reputation firm. His clients have included The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, P&G, American Greetings, Monsanto, DHL/Deutsche Post, Fischer Homes, and Pomeroy IT Solutions.
Jon writes for academic and popular publications around the world and is a frequent commentator on business issues for FOX Business Channel, and many other news outlets. He has written and edited four books, most recently Abraham’s Children: Race, Identity and the DNA of the Chosen People (Grand Central Publishing, October 2007), which merges genealogy, genetics, and religion to vividly bring to life a new understanding of Western identity and the shared biblical ancestry of Jews and Christians. It addresses a range of fascinating issues, including the DNA of Jewish IQ, the story of the Lost Tribes, the emergence of Christianity, the use of DNA by the descendants of forced converts out of Judaism who discover their Jewish ancestry and identity, and the age-old question of “Who is a Jew?” He addresses effort to identify cures for diseases that disproportionately impact specific populations and the social and political tempest that a renewed focus on “race” research is stirring.
Before launching his consulting and writing career, Jon spent 20 years as a network television news producer, winning more than twenty awards including Emmys for specials on the reform movements in China and the Soviet Union. He has produced news magazine programs at ABC News and CBS News, an entertainment special for NBC, and was Tom Brokaw’s long-time producer at NBC News, where he was also the executive in charge of documentaries.
In 1989, Tom and Jon collaborated to write and produce Black Athletes: Fact and Fiction, named Best International Sports Film of 1989), which led to his best-selling book, Taboo: Why Black Athletes Dominate Sports and Why We are Afraid to Talk About It (Public Affairs, 2000), which was recently reissued. AEI has published two books written and edited by Jon: Pension Fund Politics: The Dangers of Socially Responsible Investing (AEI Press, November 2005) on the growing influence of social investing in pension funds and Let Them Eat Precaution: How Politics Is Undermining the Genetic Revolution in Agriculture (AEI Press, January 2006), which examines the debate over genetic modification (GMOs), food, and farming.
Jons work has been featured or profiled in hundreds of articles and on many TV and radio programs, including ABC’s 20/20 and World News Tonight, FOX’s Bill O’Reilly and Hannity & Colmes, CNN’s Anderson Cooper and Lou Dobbs, MSNBC’s Hardball, HBO, NPR, BBC, C-Span, Court TV, National Review, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, GQ, Business Week, Fortune, National Post (Canada), Toronto Globe and Mail, The Australian, The Australian Business Review, Guardian (UK), The Telegraph, The Mail on Sunday, and The Sunday Times (UK).
Jon has participated in and organized dozens of public forums on policy issues at the AEI, the Brookings Institution, and the Hudson Institute, including: The International Food Security Crisis: Diagnosis and Solutions; Corporate Image Advertising and the Future of Free Enterprise, Is Nuclear Power a Solution to Global Warming, Corporate Social Responsibility Serious Business? Panic Attack: The New Precautionary Culture, and the Politics of Fear, Science Wars: Should Schools Teach Intelligent Design? The Business of Stem Cells, Race, Medicine, and Public Policy.
Jon has served as a lecturer at various universities, including Columbia, Michigan, Arizona State, NYU, and most recently Miami (Ohio), where he was scholar-in-residence. Jon graduated from Trinity College (Hartford) in 1974 with a degree in philosophy and earned a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship in Journalism at the University of Michigan in 1980-1981. He was recently named to the board of the Jewish Community Relations Council in Cincinnati, where he resides.
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