Bill Haney

Bill Haney is a filmmaker, inventor, and entrepreneur. As a writer, director, and producer of documentary films, he has won The Gabriel Prize, A Silver Hugo, The Earthwatch Award, A Marine Conservation Award, the Golden Owl and an Amnesty International Award. Chosen as Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, he has won a Humanitarian Award from Harvard Medical School, a Distinguished Service Award from the Senior Olympics, the Slow Food Prize, a Genesis Award, an Achievement Award from the ACLU, been repeatedly nominated for a NAACP Image Award, been short listed for an Oscar and won the Pare Lorentz Award. He has also written and produced several award-winning narrative films. Bill’s first invention was a system for reducing air pollution from power plants now used across the world; he holds more than 200 granted or pending patents. He has started more than a dozen companies and is presently the CEO of Dragonfly Therapeutics and Skyhawk Therapeutics, Boston-based biotechs building novel drugs to treat cancer, autoimmune disease, and neurological disease. Nine of these drugs are presently treating patients. Bill was a founding member of the national environmental advisory board for the US Environmental Protection Agency, the President's Circle for the National Academy of Sciences, and serves or has served on a variety of non-profit and government boards including for Harvard’s Kennedy School, MIT, State and Federal Government agencies, the World Wildlife Fund, US DOE, the World Resources Institute, and the NRDC. He is a founder and Chairman Emeritus of World Connect, a non-profit dedicated to improving the health and welfare of mothers and children in the developing world, with programs now launched in more than 2000 villages in 42 countries. Bill is a graduate of Harvard College and served as a Fellow of Harvard's Kennedy School. He and his wife Maura live happily near Fenway Park, in Boston, MA.