Speakers

Irwin Feller | Diana Hicks | Ben Martin | Mammo Muchie | Daniel Sarewitz
Denis Fred Simon | Albert H. Teich | Dr. Cora B. Marrett

	Irwin Feller Professor Emeritus of Economics Department of Economics The Pennsylvania State University Irwin Feller is a senior visiting scientist at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and Professor Emeritus of Economics at The Pennsylvania State University, where he was a faculty member from 1963 to 2002. His research interests include science and technology policy, economics of higher education, and program evaluation. Feller’s article, “Performance Measurement Redux,” in the American Journal of Evaluation, received the American Society for Public Administration’s Joseph S. Wholey Distinguished Scholarship Award and Best Scholarly Article on Performance-based Governance in 2002. His co-authored study (with Connie Chang and Rosalie Ruegg), “A Toolkit for Evaluating Public R&D Investment: Models, Methods, and Findings from ATP’s First Decade,” received the American Evaluation Association’s 2004 Outstanding Publication Award. Top
	Diana Hicks Professor and Chair School of Public Policy Georgia Institute of Technology Diana Hicks specializes in science and technology policy, as well as in innovative use of large databases of patents and papers to address questions of broad interest at the intersection of science and technology. She obtained a Ph.D. in science and technology policy studies from SPRU at the University of Sussex, UK, where her research identified characteristics of condensed matter physicists who made important discoveries. Hicks served on the faculty of SPRU for almost 10 years. Between 1998 and 2003, she was the Senior Policy Analyst at CHI Research, Inc., where she conducted numerous policy analyses for government agencies based on empirical information in patent and paper databases. Her work has been supported by and has informed policy makers on three continents. She has conducted quantitative assessments and served as a consultant for the European Science Foundation, Advanced Technology Program of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, the American Cancer Society, the Council for Chemical Research, the Department of Energy, the heads of the UK Research Councils, the Japanese National Institute for Science and Technology Policy, the National Science Foundation, the Small Business Administration, and The Royal Society in the UK. Hicks has taught at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, SPRU, and Georgia Tech and worked at the National Institute of Science and Technology Policy (NISTEP) in Tokyo. She is an honorary fellow of the Science Policy Research Unit, University of Sussex, UK, and she worked on the Council of Competitiveness’ National Innovation Initiative. Top
	Dr. Cora B. Marrett Acting Deputy Director National Science Foundation Dr. Cora Marrett was appointed Acting Deputy Director of the National Science Foundation, effective January 18, 2009. She had been the Assistant Director for Education and Human Resources (EHR), a position she held from February 2007 until becoming acting deputy director. She led NSF's mission to achieve excellence in U.S. science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) education at all levels and in both formal and informal settings. Earlier, from 1992-1996, Dr. Marrett was NSFs Assistant Director for Social, Behavioral and Economic Sciences (SBE). Prior to returning to NSF in 2007, Dr. Marrett served as the University of Wisconsin's senior vice president for academic affairs for six years. Before that, she served as senior vice chancellor for academic affairs and provost at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst for four years. Dr. Marrett holds a B.A. degree from Virginia Union University, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from UW-Madison, all in sociology. She received an honorary doctorate from Wake Forest University in 1996, and was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1998 and the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996. Top
	Ben Martin Professor Science and Technology Policy Research The Freeman Centre University of Sussex Brighton Professor Ben Martin is the former director of Science and Technology Policy Research (SPRU) at the University of Sussex from 1997 to 2004. He has carried out research for 30 years in the field of science policy. In Martin’s earliest work with John Irvine, he helped to establish techniques for the evaluation of scientific laboratories and of research programs. He has also made an impact in empirical comparisons of national scientific performance, particularly on the relative decline of British science. Additionally, Martin produced the first comparable international statistics on government funding of academic and related research. His collaborative work with John Irvine pioneered the notion of “foresight” as a tool for looking into the longer-term future of science and technology to identify areas of strategic research and emerging generic technologies likely to yield the greatest economic or social benefits. Martin was a member of the Steering Group for the UK Foresight Programme from 1993 to 2000. He led the SPRU team that produced the influential review for HM Treasury on the benefits of government funding of basic research. Recently, Martin carried out research on the changing nature and role of the university, on the impact of the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), and on the evolution of the field of science policy and innovation studies. From 2004 to 2005, he served as deputy chair of the EU High-Level Expert Group advising the European Commission on the potential benefits of establishing a European Research Council. Since 2008, he has served as chair of the international panel created by ESF, DFG, ESRC, now, and ANR to review the possibilities for creating a bibliometric database for the social sciences and humanities. Martin has published seven books, eight monographs and official government reports, and approximately 50 journal articles and has produced 170 other reports and papers. He is an editor for Research Policy, a former member of the Technical Opportunities Panel (TOP) of EPSRC, and the 1997 winner of the Derek de Solla Price Medal for Science Studies. Top
	Mammo Muchie Professor Tshwane University DST/NRF Research Professor at Institute for Economic Research on Innovation, Tshwane University of Technology, Pretoria, South Africa (SARCHI); DIR, Aalborg University; Senior Research Associate in the SLPTMD, Oxford University, UK. Top
	Daniel Sarewitz Professor Arizona State University Daniel Sarewitz, professor of science and society at Arizona State University, is co-director of the Consortium for Science, Policy, and Outcomes (http://www.cspo.org), which he helped found in 1999. His work focuses on revealing the connections between science policy decisions, scientific research, and social outcomes. Specifically, Sarewitz is interested in how the distribution of the social benefits of science relate to the way that we organize scientific inquiry; what accounts for the highly uneven advance of know-how related to solving human problems; how the interactions between scientific uncertainty and human values influence decision making; and how improved insight into such topics can contribute to improved real-world practice. From 1989–93, he worked on R&D policy issues as a staff member in the U.S. House of Representatives. Sarewitz received a Ph.D. in Geological Sciences from Cornell University in 1986. He resides in Washington, DC, where he runs a branch office of CSPO. For a selection of written work, visit http://www.cspo.org/ourlibrary/author/#S. Top
	Denis Fred Simon Professor Penn State University Dr. Denis Fred Simon is a Full Professor of International Affairs and one of the founding senior faculty at the new School of International Affairs at Penn State University. (see www.sia.pus.edu) In addition, he also serves as Director of the Program on US-China Technology, Economic and Business Relations. Dr. Simon is an expert on global science, technology and innovation issues with a geographic specialization on contemporary China and the Pacific Rim He has a long history of research on U.S.-China business relationships and has held a number of senior leadership positions in academe and industry. Top
	Albert H. Teich Director Science & Policy Programs American Association for the Advancement of Science USA Albert H. Teich is director of Science and Policy Programs at AAAS, a position he has held since 1990. He is responsible for the association's activities in science and technology policy and serves as a key spokesman on science policy issues. Teich received a B.S. in physics and a Ph.D. in political science from M.I.T. Prior to joining the AAAS staff in 1980, he held positions at George Washington University, the State University of New York, and Syracuse University. He is a fellow of AAAS, the recipient of the 2004 award for Achievement in Science Policy from the Washington Academy of Sciences, and president of the Academy from 2008–09. Teich is the author of numerous articles and the editor of several books, including Technology and the Future, a widely used textbook on technology and society, of which the eleventh edition was published by Cengage Learning in late October 2008. Top