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Albert H. Teich, Ph. D.
Director, AAAS Directorate
for Science and Policy Programs
Email: ateich@aaas.org
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
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