Philip Auerswald
Assistant Professor
Director, Center for Science and
Technology Policy

pauerswa@gmu.edu
703-993-3787
703-993-2284 fax
George Mason School of Public Policy
4400 University Drive – MS 3C6
Fairfax, VA 22030

Education
Ph.D. University of Washington

B.A. Yale University

Biography
Philip Auerswald is Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy and an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy. Professor Auerswald's work focuses on linked processes of technological and organizational change in the contexts of policy, economics, and strategy. He is the co-editor of Innovations: Technology | Governance | Globalization, a quarterly journal from MIT Press about people using technology to address global challenges. He author and co-author of numerous books, reports, and research papers, including Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability (Cambridge University Press, 2006) and Taking Technical Risk: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks (MIT Press: 2001). Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University, Professor Auerswald was a lecturer and Assistant Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. He has been a consultant to the National Academies of Science, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington and a B.A. (political science) from Yale University.

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