Stuart Buck

About Me

I’m the Executive Director of the Good Science Project, a non-partisan think tank that focuses on improving science funding, policy, and organizational structures.

Prior to my current role, I was the Vice President of Research for 9 years at Arnold Ventures, a multi-billion philanthropy focused on public policy. I funded renowned work showing that scientific research is often irreproducible, as featured in Wired, the Economist, the New York Times, and the Atlantic, among many others.

I can give compelling talks as to the need for greater evidence to inform corporate decisionmaking, why we need to encourage outside-the-box ideas in science and everywhere else, and how we can make sure that evidence is of the highest quality.

I have: 

• Advised the Government Accountability Office on how to improve federally funded research.
• Worked as a consultant for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to design a conference on reproducibility.
• Served as a peer reviewer for scientific grants from the National Science Foundation, the Department of Education, the Department of Health and Human Services, and the UK Metascience Unit
• Advised the John Oliver show on an episode about scientific reproducibility.
• Advised DARPA, IARPA (the CIA’s research arm), the Department of Veterans Affairs, and the White House Social and Behavioral Sciences Team on rigorous research processes. 
• Advised hundreds of university researchers on how to conduct their studies in the most rigorous way possible. 
• Published in top journals (such as Science, Nature, and BMJ) on how to make research more accurate. 

I have a Ph.D. in education policy from the University of Arkansas, where I studied econometrics, statistics, and program evaluation; a J.D. with honors from Harvard Law School, where I was an editor of the Harvard Law Review; and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the University of Georgia. 

I have been a reviewer for Science, Bioinformatics, and BMJ. I’m on the board of the Berkeley Initiative for Transparency in the Social Sciences, the Science Foundation, and Neuromatch.