Discussion Series
Overview
Bill Bonvillian, the director of the MIT Washington Office, along with Chuck Weiss will discuss their new book "Structuring an Energy Technology Revolution"
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Charles Weiss –
Charles Weiss is Distinguished Professor of Science, Technology and International Affairs at the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. He served as Chair of this program from 1997-2006.
He holds a B.A., summa cum laude in chemistry and physics, and a Ph.D. in chemical physics and biochemistry, both from Harvard University. Dr. Weiss was the first Science and Technology Adviser to the World Bank, and served in that capacity from 1971-86. Before coming to Georgetown, he served as expert consultant on technology and environmental policy in numerous developing countries. He served as Visiting Lecturer and helped to launch the program in science and technology policy at the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University, and has taught at the Foreign Service Institute of the U.S. Department of State, the University of Pennsylvania, and the Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University.
He has published papers on a broad range of topics related to international policy for science and technology. In addition to his research on strategy for technological innovation in energy, Professor Weiss has published recent papers on scientific uncertainty and the Precautionary Principle, technology strategy in developing and formerly communist countries, privacy and information technology, and strategies for value-added through bioprospecting.
William B. Bonvillian --
Since January 2006, William Bonvillian has been Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Washington, D.C. Office. Prior to that position, he served as a senior advisor for seventeen years in the U.S. Senate, working on research and technology issues. He has taught courses on science and technology policy and innovation issues at Georgetown, MIT and George Washington, and is on the adjunct faculty at Georgetown. He serves on the Board on Science Education of the National Academies of Sciences and on two other Academy study committees. He was the recipient of the IEEE Distinguished Public Service Award in 2007.
His chapter “The Connected Science Model for Innovation – The DARPA Role” will appear in the forthcoming National Academy book 21st Century Innovation Systems for the U.S. and Japan (2009). His recent articles include, “Power Play – The DARPA Model and U.S. Energy Policy” (2006) in American Interest; “The Politics of Jobs” (2007), “Meeting the New Challenge to U.S. Economic Competitiveness” (2004) and “Organizing Science and Technology for Homeland Security” (with K.V. Sharp, 2002), all published in Issues in Science and Technology; “Will the Search for New Energy Technologies Require a New R&D Mission Agency?” (2007) in bridges; and “Science at a Crossroads" (2002), published in Technology in Society and reprinted in the FASEB Journal.
Early in his career, he served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Transportation, and was a partner at a major national law firm. He received a B.A. from Columbia University with honors, an M.A.R. from Yale; and a J.D. from Columbia Law School, where he was on the Board of Editors of the Columbia Law Review. Following law school, he served as a law clerk to a prominent federal judge in New York.
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