Bill Haney is a filmmaker, inventor and entrepreneur. As a writer, director and producer of both narrative documentary films, he has won the Gold Prize for In-Depth Reporting from the AAAS Kavli Science Journalism Awards,The Gabriel Prize, A Silver Hugo, The Earthwatch Award, A Marine Conservation Award, and an Amnesty International Award. Chosen as Global Leader of Tomorrow by the World Economic Forum, he has won an 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 shortlisted for an Oscar and won the Pare Lorentz Award.

His first invention was a system for reducing air pollution from power plants, and became the basis for his first company when he was a freshman at Harvard. He has since started or helped start more than a dozen companies. He is presently the CEO of Dragonfly Therapeutics and Skyhawk Therapeutics, Boston-based biotechs building novel drugs for cancer, autoimmune disease and neurological disease. His most recent film Jim Allison: Breakthrough, 2019) tells the story  of a renegade, pioneering scientist, who led and inspired the dream team that developed a breakthrough cure for cancer. It was one of the most-watched films on Independent Lens in 2020.

Other films in Haney’s portfolio include award-winning documentaries on socially important subjects such as coal mining (The Last Mountain, 2011) and worker exploitation (The Price of Sugar, 2007) and his work as writer/producer on Tim Disney’s civil rights drama, American Violet.

Bill has served on a variety of non-profit and government boards including for the NRDC, US EPA, US DOE, Harvard’s Kennedy School and MIT. He is a founder of World Connect, a non-profit partnered with the Peace Corps and dedicating to improving the health and welfare of mothers and children in the developing world, with programs now launched in more than 1000 villages in 24 countries.