H. Sterling Burnett is a senior fellow with the National Center for Policy Analysis, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research and education institute in Dallas, Texas. While he works on a number of issues, he specializes in issues involving environmental and energy policy. He also serves as an adviser to the American Legislative Exchange Council Energy, Environment, Natural Resources and Agriculture Task Force (1996 - Present); a senior fellow with the Texas Public Policy Foundation (2005 - Present); and a contributing editor to Environment & Climate News (2005 – Present).

Dr. Burnett has been published in Ethics, Environmental Ethics, Environmental Values, The Review of Metaphysics, International Studies in Philosophy, The World and I, USA Today and the Washington Post.

Dr. Burnett received a Ph.D. in Applied Philosophy from Bowling Green State University in 2001.