Email: ateich AT aaas.org

Albert H. Teich, Ph. D.
Director, Directorate for Science and Policy Programs

Albert H. Teich is Director of Science & Policy Programs at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a position he has held since 1990. In this position, he is responsible for the Association's activities in science and technology policy and serves as its chief spokesman on science policy issues.

AAAS, founded in 1848, is the world's largest federation of scientific and engineering societies as well as a professional organization with over 140,000 members and the publisher of Science magazine. The Directorate for Science & Policy Programs, which includes activities in ethics, law, science and religion, and human rights, as well as science policy, has a staff of 40 and a budget of over $4 million a year.

Teich received a B.S. degree in physics and a Ph.D. in political science, both 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 well-known as a speaker on science and technology policy and is the author of numerous articles and editor of several books, including Technology and the Future, a widely-used textbook on technology and society, the eighth edition of which was published by Bedford/St. Martin's in August 1999.

Teich is a Fellow of AAAS; a member of the editorial advisory boards to the journals, Science Communication; Science, Technology, and Human Values; and Prometheus; and a consultant to government agencies, national laboratories, industrial firms, and international organizations. He chaired the advisory committee to the National Science Foundation's Division of Science Resources Studies from 1987 through 1990 and is currently a member of the Advisory Boards of the School of Public Policy at Georgia Tech, the School of Management and Technology at the University of Maryland, the Institute for Policy Research and Evaluation at Penn State, the Loka Institute, and the Policy Council of the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management. Dr. Teich's home page can be found at http://www.alteich.com/al.