Board of External Advisors
Jennifer Sue Bond
Senior Advisor for International Affairs at the Council on Competitiveness
Jennifer Sue Bond currently serves as Senior Advisor for International Affairs at the Council on Competitiveness and is a consultant for science and technology policy issues, for example for the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars on a project which developed recommendations for science and technology advice in the White House for the President-elect and on a project for BIO to examine the economic impact of university licensing agreements. She helped to establish and develop the Council on Competitiveness’ Global Initiative including forming a Global Advisory Committee of experts and thought leaders, developing a major Mexico initiative and helping to establish initiatives and leadership dialogues with Ireland, Brazil, the EU and Japan as well as an Advisory Task Force on China. She also served as the Council’s project director in support of the new Professional Masters Programs nationally.
Ms Bond is the former Director of the Science & Engineering Indicators Program at the National Science Foundation, where she expanded greatly the international coverage of this flagship report of the National Science Board as well as indicators on human resources, output and input indicators for science technology and innovation, and state indicators. Ms Bond worked for Senator Joseph Lieberman as an expert on education policy for two years and previously worked as the Senior International Policy Analyst at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. She also has held research positions at MIT, the World Bank, the Board on Science, Technology and International Development at National Academy of Sciences, and was the Director of the Science Policy Unit at the Brazilian Space Research Institute. She has served on the Metrics Advisory Committee for AUTM—the Association of University Technology Managers, serves on the Advisory Board of WISE—Women in Science and Engineering for the University of Arizona and on the Board of a Foundation benefiting her high school.
For over a decade she was a United States Representative to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the Vice Chair of OECD's National Experts on Science, Technology and Industry Indicators – NESTI. She also has worked with the EU on several issues including the Community Innovation Surveys, Public Attitudes Towards Science and Technology, and Mega-Science Issues. She has been on the Editorial Board of the APEC/PECC Science and Technology Profile and the Ibero- and InterAmerican Network on Science and Technology Indicators (RICYT) and served on the International Advisory Council for the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Bi-National Sustainability Laboratory, and on the Board of the Amity Foundation.
Ms. Bond holds a B.A. from Stanford University in International Affairs/Political Science and a Masters' Degree in Science, Technology and Public Policy from George Washington University. She has written and published extensively on science, technology and innovation policy topics. She speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese; has studied and worked in France and Brazil; and has traveled and lectured extensively in the United States, Europe, Latin America, Asia and Australia. She is President of the Stanford Alumni Association of Southern Arizona, a member and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences and the Cosmos Club in Washington D.C.
Barry Bozeman Regents’ Professor and Ander Crenshaw Endowed Chair of Public Policy, University of Georgia
Previously, Bozeman was Regents’ Professor of Public Policy at Georgia Tech. For eighteen years, Bozeman was Professor of Public Administration, Law and Affiliate Professor of Engineering at Syracuse University where he was director of the Maxwell School’s doctoral program and founding director of the Center for Technology and Information Policy. He has had visiting appointments at University of Michigan, Columbia University, University of Copenhagen, and Universite Marne-La-Valle.
Bozeman’s research focuses on science and technology policy, public management, and organization theory. He is the author or editor of sixteen books, including Limited by Design: R&D Laboratories in the U.S. National Innovation System (with Michael Crow, Columbia University Press) and, most recently, Rules and Red Tape: A Prism for Public Administration Theory Development (with Mary Feeney, Sharpe Publishing).
Professor Bozeman’s research articles have appeared in every major U.S. journal in the fields of public policy and public management, as well as such diverse journals as American Journal of Political Science, IEEE Transactions in Engineering Management, Research Policy, Economics of Education, Social Studies of Science, Managerial and Decision Economics, and Human Relations. His research has been summarized in science publications, such as Nature, Science, and Issues in Science and Technology and mass media, including, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, The Economist, Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Philadelphia Inquirer.
Bozeman's practitioner experience includes a position at the National Science Foundation's Division of Information Technology and a visiting position at the Science and Technology Agency's (Japan) National Institute of Science and Technology Policy. Bozeman has served as a consultant to a variety of federal and state agencies in the United States, including the Department of Commerce, the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy. He has helped in the design and evaluation of the national innovation systems of the Republic of South Africa, Canada, New Zealand, France, Israel, Chile, and Argentina. He is a member of the scientific council of the Institut Francilien Recherche, Innovation et Société (France).
The National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency, NIST, Rockefeller Foundation, Kellogg Foundation, and Sloan Foundation have supported Bozeman’s research. He is an elected fellow of both the American Association for the Advancement Science and the National Academy of Public Administration.
Darlene Cavalier
Founder, Science Cheerleader
Darlene Cavalier is the founder of Science Cheerleader.com, a website that promotes the involvement of citizens in science and science-related policy. She playfully challenges stereotypes while inspiring young girls to consider science careers with the help of the Science Cheerleaders, NFL and NBA cheerleaders pursuing science and engineering careers. Cavalier held executive positions at Walt Disney Publishing and worked at Discover magazine for more than a decade. She ran a $1.5 million NSF grant to promote basic research through partnerships with Disney and ABC TV and collaborated with the NSF, NBC Sports, and the NFL to produce the Science of NFL Football series. Cavalier is a contributing editor and senior advisor at Discover Magazine and is the cofounder of ScienceForCitizens.net, a website that connects the public to citizen science projects.
Vary Taylor Coates
Office of Technology Assessment (retired)
Vary Taylor Coates devoted 50 years of her career to developing science and technology policy studies and recently retired. After obtaining a doctorate, Vary joined George Washington University as Associate Director of the Program of Policy Studies in Science and Technology—one of the first of its kind in the U.S., and as the Head of the Technology Assessment Group. During the late 1970s and early 1980s she was Director of Policy Studies at Dames and Moore. Sometime after the founding of J. F. Coates Inc. in 1979, she joined her husband in the company as Vice-President and Project Director. She became a Senior Associate in the Office of Technology Assessment in 1984, remaining in that position until the government ceased to fund OTA in 1995. After OTA's closure, Vary Coates worked as President of the short-lived Institute for Technology Assessment until about 1998. She was editor of the journal of the Washington DC Academy of Sciences until 2011. Vary received her undergraduate education at Furman University, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science in 1951. She later received an M.A. in Public Affairs (1967) and a Ph.D. in Political Science (1972) from George Washington University.
Paul Dufour
Fellow of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa and Principal of Paulicy Works
Paul Dufour is Fellow of the Institute for Science, Society and Policy at the University of Ottawa and Principal of PaulicyWorks, a science policy consulting firm in Quebec Canada. Paul has been senior adviser and program officer in science policy with several Canadian agencies and organizations over the course of the past 30 years. Among these: senior program specialist with the International Development Research Centre, and interim Executive Director at the former Office of the National Science Advisor to the Canadian Government counselling on international S&T matters and broad questions of R&D policy directions for the country.
Born in Montreal, Paul was educated at McGill, the Université de Montreal and Concordia University in the history of science and science policy, and has had practical S&T policy experience for over three decades having been with such bodies as the Science Council of Canada, Ministry of State for Science an Technology, Foreign Affairs, and special adviser to the Prime Minister's Advisory Council on S&T. He currently provides guidance to various research organizations such as the Canadian Science Policy Centre, and the Science Media Centre of Canada. Paul lectures regularly on science policy, has authored numerous articles on international S&T relations and Canadian innovation policy. He is series co-editor of the Cartermill Guides to World Science and is the author of the Canada chapter for the UNESCO 2010 Science Report released in November 2010.
Sara E. Farley
Chief Executive Officer of the Global Knowledge Initiative, Washington, D.C.
Sara E. Farley is the Chief Executive Officer of the Global Knowledge Initiative, a non-profit enterprise whose mission is to bring science and technology into the economic development process. She is an internationally recognized science, technology, and innovation strategist. She has been commissioned by national governments (Brazil, Canada, Slovenia, and the UK), and international development and science-related affinity organizations, such as the Rockefeller Foundation, to lead thinking, develop networks, and devise policies to strengthen developing countries' science and technology capacity. After co-authoring the World Bank's new Science and Technology Strategy for Development with Chief Scientist, Robert Watson in 2001, she helped the institution design and launch its first Africa-based science and technology project. More recently, the World Bank relied on Sara as a science and technology strategist in operations across Africa, Latin America, and Eastern Europe. She has been an advisor and senior consultant to the African Development Bank, where she helped to craft the institution’s new Higher Education, Science, Technology and TVET Strategy. In 2007 and 2008, Sara worked with UNIDO to establish its first-ever policy position on innovation. Sara has also worked with SRI International, UNCTAD, the Rockefeller Foundation, and other organizations to develop science, technology, and innovation strategy and policy and guide aid delivery and operations. In 2007 and 2008, Sara worked with UNIDO to establish its first-ever policy position on innovation. Sara has also worked with SRI International, UNCTAD, the Rockefeller Foundation, and other organizations to develop science, technology, and innovation strategy and policy and guide aid delivery and operations.
Sara graduated with honors in Science, Technology, and Society from Stanford University’s School of Engineering where she also earned a Masters degree in International Policy Studies. She spent time at the University of Queensland studying and working in chemical engineering.
Christopher T. Hill
Emeritus Professor of Public Policy, School of Public Policy, George Mason University
Christopher T. Hill recently retired from George Mason University where he served as Professor of Public Policy and Technology from 1994 through 2011. Chris’s research and teaching focused on the history, design, evaluation, and politics of government policies to stimulate commercial technological innovation, as well as on science and technology policy and public policy more generally.
After formal education and experience in engineering, Dr. Hill has spent nearly four decades in practice, research, teaching and consulting in science and technology policy. From 1997 to 2005, he served as Vice Provost for Research at George Mason and was the founding President of George Mason Intellectual Properties, Inc. He served as Director of the Doctoral Program in Public Policy in 1995-1997 and again in 2008-2010. He was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2005-2006.
Chris has held positions at RAND, the National Academies, the Congressional Research Service, MIT, the Office of Technology Assessment, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Uniroyal Corporation. As a principal in Technology Policy International, he has consulted extensively with Japanese government agencies regarding industrial competitiveness and reform of R&D funding and higher education systems. He is an International Affiliated Fellow of the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy of Japan. He is the author or co-author of more than one hundred publications and policy reports. He earned a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, in 1969 and a B.S. in the same field at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1964.
Dick Klavans
Dick Klavans has published extensively on the art and science of science mapping. He has created large scale maps of science for research planning in industry (Abbott Labs, Astra Zeneca, Dupont, Glaxo, Kellogg, Kraft, SmithKline Beecham and Unilever), government agencies (DOE, NSF and NIH) and over 20 universities. His most recent research initiative is the prediction of scientific breakthroughs using a dynamic micro-structural map of science. His educational background includes an engineering degree from Tufts, a masters degree from MIT and a Ph.D. from Wharton.
John M. Logsdon
Dr. Logsdon is Professor Emeritus of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University’s Elliott School of International Affairs. Prior to his leaving active faculty status in June 2008, he was on the faculty of the George Washington University for 38 years; before that he taught at the Catholic University of America for four years. He was the founder in 1987 and long-time Director of GW’s Space Policy Institute. He is also a faculty member of the International Space University. He holds a B.S. in Physics from Xavier University (1960) and a Ph.D. in Political Science from New York University (1970).
Dr. Logsdon’s research interests focus on the policy and historical aspects of U.S. and international space activities. He is author of The Decision to Go to the Moon: Project Apollo and the National Interest (1970) and John F. Kennedy and the Race to the Moon (2010) and is general editor of the eight-volume series Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program. He has written numerous articles and reports on space policy and history. He is frequently consulted by the electronic and print media for his views on space issues.
Dr. Logsdon is a member of the Exploration Committee of the NASA Advisory Council and the Academic Council of the International Space University. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Planetary Society and the Advisory Board of the Secure World Foundation and the London Institute of Space Policy and Law. From September 2008-August 2009, he held the Charles A. Lindbergh Chair in Aerospace History at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum. In 2003, he served as a member of the Columbia Accident Investigation Board. From 1997-1999, he served as a member of a blue-ribbon international panel evaluating Japan’s National Space Development Agency. From 1998-2008, he was a member of the Commercial Space Transportation Advisory Council of the Department of Transportation. He has also served on the Vice President’s Space Policy Advisory Board and the Aeronautics and Space Engineering Board of the National Research Council. He is a recipient of the NASA Exceptional Public Service, Distinguished Public Service, and Public Service Medals, the 2005 John F. Kennedy Award from the American Astronautical Society, and the 2006 Barry Goldwater Space Educator Award of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is a member of the International Academy of Astronautics.
Brad Mitchell
Senior Director, Ohio Appalachian Collaborative
As a Senior Director at Battelle for Kids, Brad is responsible for the Ohio Appalachian Collaborative, a partnership of 22 school districts in southeast Ohio dedicated to accelerating college and career readiness for all students.
Prior to joining Battelle for Kids, Brad served as the Ohio State University/Battelle Director of STEM Partnerships, where he was charged with identifying, launching and supporting public and private partnerships that advanced STEM education. He also served as the proposal manager for Ohio’s successful Race to the Top application.
In addition, Brad previously served as CEO of the Educational Council, a partnership of the 16 school districts in Franklin County, Ohio. During his tenure, the Educational Council designed and launched Metro Early College High School, Ohio’s first early college high school focused on STEM and housed on the campus of a major research university.
From 1984 to 2004, Brad was a professor in the School of Educational Policy and Leadership in the College of Education at The Ohio State University. Throughout his career, Brad has worked at the national and state levels in the role of educational policy analyst, serving on the staff of the 1982 National Commission on Excellence in Education (A Nation at Risk) and as Director of Community Partnerships for the Ohio Children and Family First Initiative (2000-2002).
Geoffrey Oldham
Honorary Professor with SPRU at the University of Sussex
Geoffrey Oldham is a founder of the University of Sussex Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) together with Christopher Freeman. Geoff trained as a geophysicist and spent several years working in the exploration research laboratories of the Standard Oil Company of California. He left the oil company to accept a Fellowship which enabled him to study the Chinese language and to initiate a review of science and technology policy in several Asian countries.
After a year with the Scientific Directorate of OECD he helped start the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex and was its Director from 1980 to 1992. He was also a member of the team which designed and drafted the Act of the Canadian Parliament which established the International Development Research Centre. He directed the Centre’s Science and Technology Policy Programme for ten years and served as Science Adviser to the President of IDRC from 1992 to 1996.
In 2000 he contributed to the design of the Science and Development Network (www.Scidev.net) and was the Chairman of the network’s Board of Trustees.
Geoffrey Oldham has served on numerous science and technology policy advisory bodies. He was a member of the Hong Kong Committee for Scientific Co-ordination and represented Hong Kong at the 1963 UN Conference on Science and Technology for Development. He was chairman of the UN Advisory Committee on Science and Technology for Development and the UK delegate to the UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development. He chaired the Commission’s working groups on Gender and Science and Technology, and on Information Technologies and Development. He continues to be a member of the Commission’s Gender Advisory Board. In 2009 he was appointed to the Gender Advisory Committee of the Academy of Sciences of the Developing World (TWAS).
He participated in the IDRC science and technology policy reviews of South Africa, China, and Vietnam. Geoffrey Oldham advised the Chinese Minister of Science and Technology on the development of a Chinese Strategy for International Science and Technology Collaboration
He is an Honorary Professor with SPRU at the University of Sussex and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Laws by York University in Canada in 2006.
Steven W. Popper
Professor of Science and Technology Policy, RAND Pardee Graduate School and Senior Analyst, The RAND Corporation
Steven Popper is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation. As associate director of the RAND Science and Technology Policy Institute (1996–2001), Popper provided research and analytic support to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and other agencies of the Executive Branch. He is currently leading RAND's first major project in Israel on long-term energy strategies and is the lead author of Natural Gas and Israel's Energy Future: Near-Term Decisions from a Strategic Perspective (2009). He coauthored the flagship study of the RAND Pardee Center for Longer Range Global Policy and the Future Human Condition, Shaping the Next One Hundred Years: New Methods for Quantitative, Long-Term Policy Analysis (2003), which provides a new methodological framework for decisionmaking under profound uncertainty that been applied to an expanding set of policy issues. His research also focuses on regional economic development and international economics. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, serves on the Policy Council of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Popper received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Berkeley.
Dennis Simon
Vice-Provost for International Affairs at the University of Oregon
Dr. Denis Fred Simon is Vice-Provost for International Affairs at the University of Oregon. In that role, he serves as the chief academic officer responsible for the international strategy and global positioning of the overall university. He also is a tenured Full Professor of International Studies. In addition, he is a member of the Advisory Board of the Confucius Institute at the University. Denis’s distinctive competence is that he is one of a select number of global management experts with dual knowledge of both international business strategy & technology management and Asian business systems and innovation processes. Having first visited Asia in 1976 and the China mainland in 1981, Denis has developed an extensive network of professional relationships throughout business, government, and academia in the region.
Dr. Simon’s achievements have been particularly notable in the context of his management consulting activities dealing with the People’s Republic of China. With Andersen Consulting (now Accenture), Dr. Simon developed the strategy practice from its very limited beginnings into a 26+-person team of high-quality consulting professionals generating substantial engagements with both multinational firms and Chinese domestic clients. He also performed as a consultant to numerous US government and international organizations regarding China and the economies of the Asia-Pacific region, including the Office of Technology Assessment (US Congress), National Academy of Sciences, World Bank, United Nations, US Department of Commerce, PECC and OECD.
His professional activities regarding developments in China have continued to grow unabated. In September 2003, Dr. Simon was the principal organizer of a major international conference at Rensselaer, supported by the National Science Foundation, entitled, “China’s Technological Trajectory in the Post-Deng Era.” In April 2005, he testified before the special panel on China’s High Technology Development organized by the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission of the US Congress. In recognition of his extensive work in China, Denis was selected among only 20 foreign experts to receive the Liaoning Province Friendship Award in Shenyang in September 2006. In October 2006, he was awarded China’s highest medal given by the Chinese government to a “foreign expert”—the China National Friendship Award—by Premier Wen Jiabao in the Great Hall of the People in Beijing. In June 2008, he developed and implemented the SUNY China 150 Program—an innovative initiative supported by China’s State Council--designed to bring 150 Chinese UG students from the earthquake damaged area in Sichuan to the US on scholarship for one academic year. In March 2009, Denis was made the first foreign senior adviser to the newly established World Innovation Institute—a prestigious think tank focused on the study of R&D and technology strategy issues in China and abroad--under the Ministry of Commerce in Beijing.
Denis Simon received his undergraduate education at the State University of New York (B.A., 1974), and a Master’s degree in Asian Studies in 1975 and a Ph.D. in Political Science in 1980 from the University of California at Berkeley.