E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D., is Founder and National Spokesman of The Cornwall Alliance for the Stewardship of Creation, a network of over 60 Christian theologians, natural scientists, economists, and other scholars educating for Biblical earth stewardship, economic development for the poor, and the proclamation and defense of the good news of salvation by God’s grace, received through faith in Jesus Christ’s death and resurrection.

He is the author of Prosperity and Poverty: The Compassionate Use of Resources in a World of Scarcity, published in 1988, an introduction to economics informed by Biblical theology and ethics, and then his book Prospects for Growth: A Biblical View of Population, Resources, and the Future, published in 1990, which applied the lessons of the prior book to questions about alleged overpopulation, resource depletion, and environmental degradation and conservation. In 1997 he published Where Garden Meets Wilderness: Evangelical Entry into the Environmental Debate, a history and constructive critique of the evangelical environmental movement, nine other books, contributions to over 30 books, and over a thousand published articles.

He has lectured at universities, seminaries, conferences, and churches in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and testified as an expert witness on the ethics and economics of climate change and climate and energy policy before committees of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, briefed the White House Council on Environmental Policy, and presented a paper to a scholarly colloquium on climate change of the Pontifical Institute for Justice and Peace at the Vatican in Rome. In 2014 the Heritage Foundation honored Dr. Beisner with the Outstanding Spokesman for Faith, Science, and Stewardship Award at the Ninth International Conference on Climate Change.