An Advisory Council advises and guides the program.  Dr. Fred Bernthal, President of Universities Research Association chairs the panel.  Other members are drawn from government, universities, industries, and scientific and engineering societies and academies.  The core group of council members comprised the U.S. delegation to the June 2002 Beijing Workshop.  The Advisory Council held its first meeting in November 2002 and met again on August 2, 2004.  Council members have contributed to the program in many ways: serving as authors of papers, participants in seminars, forums and workshops, and members of selection committees.  Advice via electronic “virtual meetings” has been the predominant mode recently.

Council members are:

• Frederick M. Bernthal, Council Chair, Universities Research Association;
• Mary Brown Bullock, Agnes Scott College;
• Alex DeAngelis, U.S. National Science Foundation (retired);
• James Decker, U.S. Department of Energy (retired);
• Paul Gilman, Oak Ridge Center for Advanced Studies;
• Gretchen Kalonji, University of California;
• Ruth Kirschstein, National Institutes of Health;
• J. Thomas Ratchford, George Mason University School of Law;
• Maxine Savitz, Honeywell (retired);
• Allen L. Sessoms, Delaware State University;
• Denis Simon, Levin Graduate Institute for International Relations & Commerce; and
• Lilian Wu, IBM Corporation.

ABOUT NCTL:

• Address and Directions
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CONFERENCES AND PROGRAMS:

• Information Economy Project
• Science and Trade Policy
• Conferences