Tom Harvey is a businessman whose career has focused on helping individuals and organizations succeed economically and politically in the water, energy and environment, and national security sectors. He serves as Chairman of the Global Environment & Technology Foundation (GETF), a non-profit foundation he founded nearly 40 years ago. He also served as Chairman of Roy F. Weston, Inc, one of the leading environmental engineering firms in the country, where he was instrumental in the company’s reorganization and turnaround.

Adept at turning challenges into opportunities, Tom has owned several successful companies, each centered on business development and technology commercialization. GETF specializes in public health, environmental technology commercialization, and clean water access solutions.

Prior to starting his own companies, Tom spent 20 years in the Army in senior positions with the White House, National Security Council, Department of Defense and Congress. A graduate of West Point, he was selected as a Congressional Fellow and served as National Security Advisor in the House of Representatives for Congressman Dick Cheney and the U.S. Senate for Senator John Warner. His Congressional experience included drafting the Nunn/Warner National Security Strategy Report legislation in 1986. Tom’s White House experience includes writing the first National Security Strategy report for President Reagan and developing the National Space Strategy while working as a member of the

National Space Council. In the Department of Defense he served as Congressional Liaison Officer, specializing in space operations, intelligence, energy and the environment and as speechwriter for the Army Chief of Staff. Overseas assignments in the Army included command NATO/Shape Headquarters and Foreign Military Exchange Officer with the Yugoslav Army. He was a Foreign Area Specialist in Russia and Eastern Europe.

Tom holds considerable international experience having lived and/or worked in Africa, Eastern Europe, Russia and China. He holds an MBA from the University of Puget Sound; an MA in International Relations from Boston University; a BS in Engineering from West Point and was a Foreign Affairs Fellow at Johns Hopkins University.