Mark Mills is a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a Faculty Fellow at the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science at Northwestern University. He also serves on the Advisory Board of Notre Dame's Reilly Center for Science Technology & Values, and is a partner in a boutique energy-tech venture fund. Mills writes the Energy Intelligence column for Forbes.com and is coauthor of the 2005 book The Bottomless Well which rose to #1 in Amazon's science rankings. He was a staff consultant in the White House Science Office under President Reagan, and earlier in his career an experimental physicist and development engineer in microprocessors, fiber optics, and optical detectors working at Canada's Bell Labs, and RCA's Sarnoff Research Center.