John Stutz is vice president and a founding member of the Tellus Institute. His work has addressed utility regulation, energy policy, waste management, and sustainable consumption. He has appeared as an expert witness before regulatory bodies throughout the US and Canada. A central theme of Dr. Stutz’s research has been human well-being as it relates to values, affluence, and the environment. He is a founding member of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI).

Previously, Dr. Stutz served on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; the State University of New York at Albany, where he received tenure; and Fordham University, where he was co-director of the program in mathematics and economics. He received a PhD in mathematics from Princeton University in 1969.