Robert K. Musil, PhD, MPH  Scholar in Residence, Adjunct Professor, American University; Visiting Scholar, Churches’ Center for Theology and Public Policy, Wesley Theological Seminary; former Executive Director and CEO, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Nobel Peace Prize, 1985.
Robert K. Musil, PhD, MPH, is Scholar in Residence and Adjunct Professor in the School of International Studies at American University, where he teaches in the Program on Global Environmental Politics and in the Nuclear Studies Institute. He is also a Visiting Scholar at the Churches’ Center for Theology and Public Policy, Wesley Theological Seminary, where he is researching, writing and teaching about religious responses to global warming and security threats. He is the longest-serving executive director and CEO of Physicians for Social Responsibility (PSR)—1992 to 2006. The organization shared the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize with International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War. During his tenure, he more than doubled PSR’s membership, budget and staff. He is a graduate of Yale and Northwestern universities and the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. He has been a Visiting Honorary Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and at Pembroke College and Cambridge University. Dr. Musil will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Mitchell College in May 2009. Currently, he is a Woodrow Wilson Foundation Visiting Fellow for 2008-2009 and is in demand s a campus lecturer. Dr. Musil has also taught at Northwestern, Temple, St. Joseph’s and LaSalle universities. Dr. Musil specializes in contemporary global security, sustainability and health issues, as well as Cold War history, culture, and policy. He is the author of numerous articles and Hope for a Heated Planet: How Americans are Fighting Global Warming and Building a Better Future (Rutgers University Press, 2009). Dr. Musil helped launch PSR’s environmental program in the early 1990’s and has led PSR campaigns for safe and affordable drinking water, clean air and the prevention of toxic pollution and global climate change. As a member of the Green Group, representing the nation’s 34 largest environmental groups, Dr. Musil has met regularly and worked closely over the years with leading public figures, including President Bill Clinton,Vice President Al Gore and numerous cabinet members and Congressional leaders. He also initiated PSR’s U.S.-Mexico Border Project in El Paso and Juarez, Mexico and has represented PSR at international environmental negotiations in Montreal, Kyoto, Johannesburg, Geneva and elsewhere. A longtime leader of the environmental and nuclear arms control movements, Dr. Musil has also been executive director of the Professionals’ Coalition for Nuclear Arms Control, the SANE Education Fund, the Center for National Security Studies Military Affairs Project and CCCO: An Agency for Military and Draft Counseling. He is a former Army captain who taught communications and policy at the Defense Information School, Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. From 1978-1992, Dr. Musil was the executive producer and host of Consider the Alternatives, a half-hour weekly radio program with two million listeners syndicated to over 150 stations. He has been the producer of numerous groundbreaking independent video documentaries and public radio documentary series, including One Blue Sky: Health and the Human Environment. Dr. Musil is two-time winner of the Armstrong Award for Excellence in Radio Broadcasting. Dr. Musil currently is President of the Herbert R. Scoville Peace Fellowships and Chairman of the Board of 20/20 Vision, an energy security group. He also serves on the boards of Population Connection and the Council for a Livable World. Dr. Musil and his wife, Dr. Caryn McTighe Musil, Senior Vice President of the Association of American Colleges and Universities, live in Bethesda and have two daughters, Rebecca M. Unruh, an attorney with Hogan & Hartson in Washington, D.C., and Emily K. Musil, Visiting Assistant Professor of History and International Studies at Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut.
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