Philip E. Auerswald

Philip Auerswald "is a founding co-editor of Innovations. Auerswald is also Director of the Center for Science and Technology Policy and an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy, George Mason University, and a Research Associate with the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. Auerswald's research work focuses on linked processes of technological and organizational change in the contexts of policy, economics, and strategy. He author and co-author of numerous books, reports, and research papers, including Taking Technical Risk: How Innovators, Executives, and Investors Manage High-Tech Risks (MIT Press: 2001) and Seeds of Disaster, Roots of Response: How Private Action Can Reduce Public Vulnerability (Cambridge University Press, 2006). Prior to joining the faculty at George Mason University, Auerswald was an Assistant Director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program and an adjunct lecturer 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. Auerswald was a co-founder in 1990 and, until 2005, Editor of the Foreign Policy Bulletin: the Documentary Record of United States Foreign Policy, currently published by Cambridge University Press. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Washington and a B.A. (political science) from Yale University."