Speaker profile
Tom Neltner
Tom Neltner is EDF’s Senior Director for Safer Chemicals. He leads efforts to remove or minimize hazardous chemicals from products and the marketplace through cross-cutting policy initiatives.
His primary focus is on food additive safety and reducing exposure to lead in our homes and communities. He is a chemical engineer and attorney with experience in chemical safety issues in the workplace, the environment, the home, consumer products, and food.
He has worked in chemical, food additive, pesticide, and pharmaceutical manufacturing as well as state government and public interest advocacy with stints as an adjunct professor at Indiana University through many of those years. He is a Healthy Homes Specialist, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, and elected Fellow of the National Institute for Hazardous Materials Managers. He is admitted to practice law in Indiana, Washington DC, and the federal courts of appeal for the 9th and District of Columbia circuits.