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  Professional Biography

  • Currently he directs the WTEC professional staff on assignment to the National Nanotechnology Coordination Office in Arlington, VA, where he also holds the title of Policy Analyst and serves as Executive Secretary of the Nanoscale Science, Engineering and Technology (NSET) Subcommittee of the National Science and Technology Council.
  • Prior to WTEC, Inc., he was Director of the WTEC Division at ITRI. He managed the day-to-day affairs of the WTEC program.
  • Prior to coming to Loyola in 1989, he served as a Special Assistant to the Division Director for Emerging Engineering Technologies (EET) at NSF, where he helped manage the JTEC program (the predecessor of the WTEC program) at NSF.
  • In a special assignment for the EET Division in 1987-88, he prepared a report on the long-term industrial consequences of a loss of U.S. competitiveness in the memory chip market as part of NSF's contribution to an inter-agency study on the status of the U.S. semiconductor industry.
  • He has also worked as Staff Consultant for the National Academy of Sciences' Panel on the Impact of National Security Export Controls in International Technology Transfer (also known as the Allen Panel).
  • He holds a B.A. in History (specializing in 20th Century East Asia) from Yale University.

Geoffrey Holdridge
 Vice President, Government Services