Tom Hilde is Research Professor in the School of Public Policy. He teaches courses in International Environmental Agreements, Moral Dimensions of Public Policy and Leadership, Environment & Development, and Environmental Ethics. Hilde comes from New York University, where he directed the Environmental Conservation Education Program as well as the Applied Philosophy Group, and taught interdisciplinary graduate seminars in environmental politics, science and philosophy, and development ethics. He has also taught at Penn State and Texas A&M. Hilde was a Fulbright Senior Specialist in Venezuela in 2005 and is a member of the UNESCO Global Ethics Observatory.

Hilde co-edited The Agrarian Roots of Pragmatism (Vanderbilt, 2000); translated Stalinism and Nazism: History and Memory Compared (2004); and recently edited On Torture (Johns Hopkins, 2008). He has published several articles in political thought, ethics, epistemology, and aesthetics. His volume Pragmatism and Globalization will appear in 2008 (Rodopi, Value Inquiry Series). Current book projects include one on conceptual and normative frameworks in the economics and politics of energy systems (On Energy), and a book that develops a pragmatic analysis of democratic legitimacy in international environmental and development institutions (Pragmatic Cosmopolitanism: Reconstructing International Institutions between Philosophy and Policy). 

Hilde has lived in Taiwan, Japan, Thailand, Nepal, and France, and now makes his home in Washington, DC.