Peter Huber

Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research; Co-founder, Digital Power Capital; Author, The Bottomless Well, Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy, and Hard Green

Peter W. Huber is a co-founding partner in Digital Power Capital, and founding member of the Digital Power Group (Washington D.C.) He is also a Senior Fellow of the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, and a partner of the Washington, DC law firm of Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd & Evans.

He has written about science, environment, technology, and the law, and is the author of over a dozen books including: The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy (Basic Books, January 2005), co-written with Mark Mills; Hard Green: Saving the Environment from the Environmentalists (Basic Books 2000); Law and Disorder in Cyberspace (Oxford Univ Press 1997); Judging Science, Scientific Knowledge and the Federal Courts (co-author) (MIT Press 1997); Federal Broadband Law (co-author) (Little Brown 1995); Orwell's Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest (Free Press 1994); Galileo's Revenge: Junk Science in the Courtroom (Basic Books, 1991); Liability: The Legal Revolution and its Consequences (Basic Books, 1988); and The Geodesic Network (U.S. Dept. of Justice 1987).

He is a regular columnist in Forbes, writes frequently for various national magazines and newspapers, and has appeared on numerous television and radio programs, including Face the Nation and The News Hour with Jim Lehrer. Huber clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for then Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He earned his law degree from Harvard University and a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.