George Hacker

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US Lawyer George A. Hacker has headed the temperance-oriented Alcohol Policies Project of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) for three decades. He is Co-Chair of the Coalition for the Prevention of Alcohol Problems, whose members include the American Council on Alcohol Problems (the current name of the Anti-Saloon League) and many other alcohol activist groups.

As part of his leadership role as an alcohol activist leader, George Hacker has authored and coauthored numerous publications to promote reducing the availability and consumption of alcohol beverages. He is described as "an outspoken anti-alcohol activist by journalist James Thalman in Utah’s Deseret News and as "the undisputed general" of the forces attacking alcohol by Michael Massing in the New York Times.