Events

2009 Bromley lecture: Policy as Science

Wednesday, April 29, at the Center for Center for International Science and Technology Policy (CISTP) George Washington University, Washington DC

The Allan Bromley Lecture is named after David Allen Bromley, a great Canadian-American physicist, academic administrator and Science Advisor to President George H. W. Bush.

The lecture focuses on the dramatic changes in our understanding of science, technology and innovation policy during the past few decades. It is co-sponored each year by the Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa, Canada and the Center for International Science and Technology Policy, The Geroge Washington University.

In the lecture this year at the CISTP, Dr. John H. Marburger, III, the former Science Advisor to the President and Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) during 2001-09, made a presentation titled "Policy as Science".

About Dr. D. Allan Bromley: One of the world's leading nuclear physicists, D. Allan Bromley, died on February 11, 2005. He was born in Westmeath, Ontario in 1926. Dr. Bromley was the first person to hold the Cabinet-level rank of Assistant to the President for Science and Technology from 1989 to 1993 during the first Bush administration. Prior to this Dr. Bromley sat on former President Reagan's White House Science Council. Dr. Bromley was a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a recipient of the National Medal of Science, the highest U.S. scientific award.