Julian Betts is a professor of Economics at the University of California, San Diego and is also a senior fellow at the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC). Much of his research has focused on the economic analysis of education. Betts obtained a bachelor's degree in chemistry from McGill University, the M.Phil. in economics from Oxford University, Oxford, England, and a Ph.D. in economics from Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, Canada.
Susan V. Bryant is the vice chancellor for research at the University of California, Irvine. She joined the UCI faculty in 1969. Bryant received her doctorate in developmental biology from the University of London in 1967 and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Case Western Reserve University. Her research is focused on regeneration, stem cells, wound healing, growth, pattern formation, limb development, limb regeneration.
Peter Cowhey, Qualcomm professor of Communications and dean of Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies, University of California, San Diego, is an internationally recognized expert in telecommunications and information policy and markets who also is a leader in building cooperative international arrangements for the management of security and economic issues. Cowhey joined UCSD's faculty in 1976. He holds a B.A. in foreign services from Georgetown University, and a M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley.
Charles Elachi is the director of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory and vice president of the California Institute of Technology. Elachi received the B.Sc. ('68) in physics from University of Grenoble, France; the Dipl. Ing. ('68) in engineering from the Polytechnic Institute, Grenoble and the M.Sc. ('69) and Ph.D. ('71) degrees in electrical sciences from the California Institute of Technology. He also has a M.Sc. ('83) degree in geology from the University of California, Los Angeles, and an MBA ('79) from the University of Southern California. He joined JPL in 1970.
Corey Goodman is president and chief executive officer of Renovis, Inc. He is also adjunct professor of Neurobiology at the University of California, Berkeley. He co-founded Renovis in 2000. Previously, Goodman was a professor of biology at Stanford University for 8 years, and then a faculty member at the University of California, Berkeley for 18 years. Goodman received a B.S. in biology from Stanford University and a Ph.D. in neurobiology from the University of California, Berkeley.
Jude Laspa is deputy chief operating officer, executive vice president and director of Bechtel Group, Inc. Based in San Francisco, Laspa also serves as sponsor of Greater China and the Bechtel Fellows (world class technical specialists) Program as well as being the chairman of the BGI Group Strategy Committee. He has been with Bechtel for 40 years and held various positions in project management and project controls. Laspa holds a B.S., engineering, from Harvey Mudd College and an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago.
George Miller is the tenth director of Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a position he assumed in March 2006, after a long and distinguished career in national security work at the Laboratory. Throughout his tenure, Miller has tackled a variety of management and scientific challenges in the interest of national security. Miller received his bachelor's degree (1967), master's degree (1969), and Ph.D. (1972) all in physics from the College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, Virginia.
Michael Nacht is Aaron Wildavsky dean and professor in the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley. He teaches and writes in the fields of U.S. national security and foreign policy and on management strategies for public organizations. From 1994 to 1997, after unanimous U.S. Senate confirmation, Nacht served as assistant director for Strategic and Eurasian Affairs of the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency. He holds a B.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from New York University and a Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University.
Jeffrey N. Rudolph is the president and CEO of the California Science Center and the president of the California Science Center Foundation. Rudolph received a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley and an M.B.A. from Yale University. Prior to becoming president and CEO of the California Science Center, he served as its executive director and deputy director, as the executive director of the State of California's Intergovernmental Personnel Act Advisory Board, and as a program analyst for the Legislative Budget Committee of the California Legislature.
James L. Sweeney, of Stanford University, is director of the Precourt Institute for Energy Efficiency; professor of Management Science and Engineering; senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research; senior fellow of the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace; and senior fellow of the Stanford Institute for International Studies. He holds a B.S. degree from MIT in electrical engineering and a Ph.D. from Stanford University in engineering-economic systems.
