Caroline S. Wagner

Biography:
Caroline S. Wagner specializes in science and technology and its relationship to innovation, policy, and society. She is a Senior Policy Analyst at SRI International in Arlington, Virginia and a Research Associate at the Center for International Science & Technology Policy at The George Washington University. She is the author of a book, The New Invisible College: Science for Development, Brookings Press, 2008. During her 30-year career in science policy, she has held a number of analytic and policy positions. At The RAND Corporation, she was deputy to the Director of the Science & Technology Policy Institute, a research center serving the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and as a Senior Analyst in RAND’s office in Leiden, Netherlands. Prior to joining RAND, Dr. Wagner was a Professional Staff Member for the United States Congress Committee on Science, Space, and Technology and before that, in the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. She has served as an analyst for the United States federal government analyzing global developments in science and technology. During this time, she served for two years at the U.S. Embassy in Seoul, South Korea. Dr. Wagner has had grants from the Rockefeller and Fulbright Foundations. She has consulted to the World Bank, the European Commission, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and the U.S. National Science Foundation and a number of governments. Among her advisory roles, from 2002 until 2004, Dr. Wagner served on the United Nations Millennium Development Task Force on Science, Technology, and Innovation. She holds a doctorate from the University of Amsterdam in Science & Technology Dynamics; a Master of Arts from George Washington University in Science, Technology and Public Policy; and a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Trinity College. In 2006, Dr. Wagner was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She is the author of more than 20 monographs that can be found at her website at www.carolinewagner.net and on RAND’s website, or upon request to cswagner@mac.com.

September 2009

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