Speaker bio

Kaye Husbands Fealing
Science of Science Policy Advisor
Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences

Kaye Husbands Fealing became the Science of Science Policy advisor in the Directorate of Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences in June 2006. Previously, she was program director in SBE’s economics program.

Husbands Fealing serves as liaison to The Evolution of Cooperation and Trading, or TECT, initiative, a collaborative effort between National Science Foundation and the European Science Foundation. She earned her Ph.D. in economics in 1990 at Harvard University, where her fields of study included industrial organization, international trade theory, multinational enterprises, and international development.

In 1981, she received her B.A., with a double major in mathematics and economics from the University of Pennsylvania. Husbands Fealing is the William Brough Professor of Economics at Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., where she has taught courses on global competitive strategies, microeconomics, industrial organization, as well as senior seminars on a variety of topics including the Pacific Rim, globalization, income security, privatization, and regulation.

She has also been a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Center for Technology Policy and Industrial Development from July 1992 through August 1996, where she conducted research on NAFTA’s impact on the Mexican and Canadian automotive industries and on strategic alliances between aircraft contractors and their subcontractors. Husbands Fealing researches the automotive industry and on the effect of multinationals on global technological diversity.

Sessions Featuring This Speaker:
Friday, Oct. 19, 2007, 9:15-10 a.m.

• Plenary on the State of Field

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