John Durant

John Durant has spent his entire career in the broad field of public engagement with science and technology. In the 1990s, he was Assistant Director and Head of Science Communication at the Science Museum, London, where he led the creation of The Wellcome Wing, and before joining MIT he was Executive Director of At-Bristol, a new science center in the west of England. He is currently The Mark R. Epstein (Class of 1963) Director of the MIT Museum, an Adjunct Professor in the Science, Technology and Society Program at MIT, and a Faculty Dean at Pforzheimer House at Harvard University.