Harvey Lehtman's work in the area emerging technologies focuses on the developing national and international information infrastructures, new media technology, electronic commerce, and electronic communities.

He became an IFTF affiliate in 1993 after thirteen years as a manager and developer in advanced technology and product development groups at Apple Computer, Inc., and ten years as a researcher at SRI International. In those positions, he was responsible for work in strategic planning methodologies, collaborative systems, information access, and multimedia authoring, presentation, and navigation tools. At SRI International he worked in the group headed by Doug Engelbart who invented the mouse, windowed displays, hypertext, and recorded electronic mail. That group was one of the first two sites on the ARPANet in 1969.

Harvey holds master's degrees in engineering-economic systems from Stanford University, computer science from the University of California, San Diego, and physics from the University of Chicago. His bachelor of science degree in physics is from the University of California, Berkeley. He also completed the MIT Sloan School of Management executive program in corporate strategy.