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APPENDIX B
Biographies of Speakers
(Biographies provided were those at the time of the workshop.)
Alice R. de P. Abreu is professor emeritus of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in
Brazil and the regional coordinator of the International Council for Science (ICSU) Rio+20
Initiative. She is the former director of the Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean
of ICSU ending her mandate in December 2010. She received her doctoral degree in sociology
from the University of São Paulo Brazil (1980), and her M.S. in sociology from the London
School of Economics and Political Science of the University of London (1971). A full professor
of sociology from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro until 2005, Abreu has published
extensively on the sociology of work and gender. She also held a number of important positions
within the academic community of Brazil and internationally, which included the vice
presidency of the National Research Council for Scientific and Technological Development in
the Ministry of Science and Technology of Brazil, and director of the Office of Education,
Science and Technology of the Organization of American States, in Washington D.C. Abreu
served on the Executive Committee of International Sociological Association for two terms,
2002-2006 and 2006-2010. She received the Ordem Nacional do Mérito Científico
(Comendador) of the Science and Technology Ministry, Brazil in 2001; the Palmes Académiques
(Officier) of the Ministère de la Jeunesse, de l'Éducation Nationale et de la Recherche,
République Française, in 2003. She was awarded the Florestan Fernandes Prize in 2009. Abreu
is, since 2010, a foreign member of the Academia de Ciencias Médicas, Físicas y Naturales de
Guatemala.
Kathie Bailey-Mathae, director of the Board on International Scientific Organizations
(BISO), began her career at the National Academies in February 2005 when she joined BISO as
a program officer. After serving as senior program officer and BISO's deputy director, she was
appointed director in May 2007. Her responsibilities in BISO have included six U.S. national
committees in math and physical sciences, National Academy of Sciences (NAS) representation
on the U.S. National Commission for United Nations Educational, Scientific, Cultural
Organization (UNESCO), and visa policy. Prior to coming to the National Academies, Bailey-
Mathae worked for the Association of American Universities for 14 years. Prior to that, she
worked for Congresswoman Lindy Boggs (D-LA) as associate staff for Department of Housing
and Urban Development appropriations and special projects assistant. She has a B.A. from
Milligan College and a J.D. from Tulane University.
Daryl Chubin became founding director of the Center for Advancing Science and
Engineering Capacity at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in
August 2004. Prior to that he served more than 3 years as senior vice president Research, Policy
and Programs at the National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering, Inc. after nearly 15
years in federal service. Posts included 3 years (1998-2001) as senior policy officer for the
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National Science Board of the National Science Foundation (NSF); division director for
Research, Evaluation and Communication in NSF's Directorate for Education and Human
Resources (1993-1998); and (on detail) assistant director for Social and Behavioral Sciences (and
Education) at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1997). He began his
federal career in 1986 at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Chubin has also
served on the faculty of four universities, including Georgia Institute of Technology, where he
was promoted to full professor. Since 1991, he has been an adjunct professor at the Cornell in
Washington Program. He has published eight books and numerous policy reports, articles, and
commentaries on issues in science policy, human resource development, program evaluation, and
engineering education. Among his honors are the following: AAAS fellow, past chair of the
AAAS Section on Societal Impacts of Science and Engineering, fellow of the Association for
Women in Science, co-recipient of the American Society of Engineering Education Wickenden
Award for best paper published in the 2003 volume of the Journal of Engineering Education,
Quality Education for Minorities/Mathematics, Science, and Engineering 2006 Giant of Science,
and Sigma Xi Distinguished Lecturer 2007-2009. Today, he participates on the board of
directors of three not-for-profit organizations and on the editorial board of three professional
journals. Chubin has a B.A. in sociology from Miami University and a Ph.D. in sociology from
Loyola University of Chicago.
Joanne Cohoon is an associate professor at the Department of Science, Technology, and
Society at the University of Virginia. She teaches gender, technology, and education and
supervises both graduate and undergraduate student research. Cohoon is a sociologist who
researches, publishes, and speaks on women's underrepresentation in Information Technology
(IT) and on gender segregation in higher education. She has conducted nationwide studies of
departmental factors that influence recruitment and retention at the undergraduate and graduate
levels of computer science. Cohoon is a senior research scientist at the National Center for
Women in IT Social Science Network; and a member of the Georgia Tech College of Computing
Diversity Advisory Board, the PROACT Advisory Board, and the Working Committee on
Women in Computing of Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Women in
Computing. She has a B.A. in philosophy from Ramapo College, New Jersey, an M.A. in
student personnel administration in higher education from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in
sociology (dissertation, "Non-Parallel Processing: Gendered Attrition in Academic Computer
Science") from the University of Virginia.
Keith Crank is the research and graduate education manager at American Statistical
Association (ASA). Prior to joining the ASA, he was a program officer at NSF, primarily in the
probability program. Crank has a B.S. in mathematics education, an M.S. in mathematics from
Michigan State University, and a Ph.D. in statistics from Purdue University.
Ingrid Daubechies received both her B.S. and Ph.D. degrees (in 1975 and 1980) from
the Free University in Brussels, Belgium. She held a research position at the Free University
until 1987. From 1987 to 1994, she was a member of the technical staff at AT&T Bell
Laboratories, during which time she took leaves to spend 6 months (in 1990) at the University of
Michigan and 2 years (1991-1993) at Rutgers University. From 1993 to 2010, Daubechies was a
full professor at Princeton University, where she was active especially within the Program in
Applied and Computational Mathematics. She was the first female full professor of mathematics
at Princeton. In January 2011, she moved to Duke University to serve as a professor of
mathematics. Daubechies is the first woman president of the International Mathematical Union
(2011-2014). Her research interests focus on the mathematical aspects of time-frequency
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analysis, in particular wavelets, as well as applications. The American Mathematical Society
(AMS) awarded her a Leroy P. Steele prize for exposition in 1994 for her book Ten Lectures on
Wavelets, as well as the 1997 Ruth Lyttle Satter Prize. From 1992 to 1997, she was a fellow of
the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. She is a member of NAS, AAAS, the
AMS, the Mathematical Association of America, the Society for Industrial and Applied
Mathematics, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.
Jessie DeAro joined the U.S. Department of Education as a presidential management
fellow in 1999 after receiving her doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of
California, Santa Barbara. Within the Department of Education, she worked with minority-
serving institutions to strengthen the quality of education programs and institutional
infrastructure. In 2003, she joined NSF as a program director working with programs to
diversify the STEM1 workforce, including the Historically Black Colleges and Universities-
Undergraduate Program and ADVANCE Program. She recently spent a year detailed to the
White House Office of Science and Technology Policy where she worked on STEM education
and workforce diversity policy. She is once again at NSF working on issues related to graduate
education, postdoctoral training, and academic careers, and as program director for the Alliances
for Graduate Education and the Professoriate program.
Catherine Didion is the director of the Committee on Women in Science, Engineering,
and Medicine (CWSEM) of the National Research Council (NRC). In addition, she is a senior
program officer at the National Academy of Engineering (NAE). Her charge at NAE is to
provide staff leadership to the Academies' efforts to enhance the diversity of the engineering
workforce at all levels. As part of her responsibilities, she is currently the project director for the
$2 million Engineering Equity Extension Service Project, which is working with engineering
societies to enhance their gender equity principles within their programs. Before joining the
National Academies, Didion was vice president of the Didion Group, a public affairs and
communications firm, as well as a director of the International Network of Women in
Engineering and Science. Didion previously served 14 years as the executive director of the
Association for Women in Science (AWIS). During her tenure, AWIS was awarded the U.S.
Presidential Award for Excellence in Science, Mathematics, and Engineering Mentoring, and she
was the principle investigator for 17 U.S. government and foundation grants. Didion has
presented testimony before the U.S. Congress and U.S. federal agencies. She has worked
extensively with the European Commission, the South African Ministry of Science and
Technology, the Organization of American States, and many other organizations on these issues.
She has been an invited speaker on mentoring, networking, and women in science and
engineering at over 200 conferences and has authored over 50 publications on women in science
and engineering. She was the editor for the "Women in Science" column for the Journal of
College Science Teaching from 1993 to 2002. Didion has extensive experience on Capitol Hill
in Washington, D.C., including staff positions at the U.S. Senate Commerce, Science, and
Transportation Committee, the U.S. Senate Computer Center, and the U.S. Senate Press Gallery.
Allan Fisher is the vice president of Laureate Education, Inc. He previously was
cofounder, president, and CEO of iCarnegie Inc., an online higher education subsidiary of
Carnegie Mellon University; before that, he served until 1999 as faculty member and associate
dean for undergraduate education in the School of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon
University. During that time, Fisher worked in high-performance computing and networking
research and also led the creation of Carnegie Mellon's B.S. program in computer science. In
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the late 1990s, he and Jane Margolis carried out a program of research and intervention that
helped to increase the proportion of women entering the computer science program from 7
percent in 1995 to 42 percent in 2000. This work is described in their book Unlocking the
Clubhouse: Women in Computing, published in 2002 by Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Press. He received a B.S. in chemistry from Princeton University, studied at the University of
Cambridge, and received a Ph.D. in computer science from Carnegie Mellon University. Fisher
served on a number of advisory committees for projects and organizations working toward
diversity in technology fields, including the Anita Borg Institute and CWSEM.
Lisa M. Frehill is a senior program officer at the National Academies. In addition to her
work at the National Academies, she is the director of research, evaluation, and policy at the
National Action Council for Minorities in Engineering (NACME). Since earning her doctoral
degree, she has developed expertise in the science and engineering workforce with a focus on
how gender and ethnicity impact access to careers and international participation and
collaboration in these fields. As an associate professor of sociology at New Mexico State
University, she was the principal investigator and program director of NSF-funded ADVANCE:
Institutional Transformation Program, which sought to increase women's success in academic
science and engineering careers. She has consulted with numerous colleges and universities on
gender equity issues. Frehill has worked with the Society of Women Engineers on several
projects, including a retention study and the annual review of literature on women in
engineering. She was the lead author of the Motorola Foundation-funded study released by
NACME in 2008 titled "Confronting the `New' American Dilemma: Underrepresented
Minorities in Engineering: A Data-Based Look at Diversity," and the NACME databook.
Research in progress includes projects funded by NSF on women's international participation
and collaboration in science and engineering and on career outcomes of engineering bachelor's
degree recipients.
Wendy Hansen is a senior researcher at the United Nations University Maastricht
Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology (MERIT). Hansen
studied sociology at Carleton University in Canada and joined Statistics Canada's Postsecondary
Education Projections/Analyses Section. In the fall of 1988, she moved to Industry Canada,
where she has been a senior policy analyst in industry and science policy. Hansen joined
MERIT as a senior research associate in May 1997 to continue her research. Her research
focuses on knowledge workers, in particular scientists and engineers, and falls in a range of
science and technology policy issues and information society. Her research addresses the change
in the skill base of the labor force, including the development of new measures for links between
knowledge workers and technological change, as well as specific measures of human capital in a
digitized society.
Cheryl B. Leggon is an associate professor at the School of Public Policy in the Georgia
Institute of Technology. Leggon's research focuses on African American, Mexican American,
Puerto Rican, Native American, and Native Pacific Islander women in science and engineering;
this focus developed while she was a staff officer in the Office of Scientific and Engineering
Personnel at the NRC. Her work underscores the criticality of disaggregating data by race,
ethnicity, and gender to develop policy, programs and practices that enhance and expand the
science and engineering talent pool in the United States. Currently, Leggon is co-principal
investigator on two grants funded by NSF "Inside the Double Bind--A Synthesis of Literature
on Women of Color in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics" and "Cross-
Disciplinary Initiative for Minority Women Faculty" (ADVANCE Leadership). She earned a
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Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Chicago and a B.A. in sociology from Barnard
College, Columbia University.
Robert Lichter, a principal at Merrimack Consultants, LLC, received his A.B. cum
laude from Harvard College in 1962 and his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in
1967, both in chemistry. He was a National Institutes of Health postdoctoral fellow at the
Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany, from 1967 to 1968, and a research fellow at the
California Institute of Technology from 1968 to 1970. After 13 years in the chemistry
department at Hunter College of the City University of New York, including 4 years as
department chair, he became regional director of grants at Research Corporation from 1983 to
1986. From 1986 to 1989, Lichter served as vice provost for research and graduate studies at the
State University of New York at Stony Brook. Before embarking on his current position in
2002, he was executive director of the New York City-based Camille and Henry Dreyfus
Foundation from 1989 to 2002, where he directed the strategies and administration of 10
programs and related activities that yielded about $6 million in grants and awards in the chemical
and closely related sciences for research, education, science communication, and human resource
development. Among his professional activities, Lichter was chair of the AAAS Section on
Chemistry for 2001-2002, and was secretary of the section from 2004 to 2009. At the American
Chemical Society (ACS), he has been a member of the Committee on Science and its Committee
on Minority Affairs, and the latter's subcommittee on the ACS Scholars Program. Lichter has
served on and has chaired numerous national panels and advisory boards dealing with broad
educational and scientific issues, including many for ACS, NSF, and the NRC.
Anne MacLachlan is a senior researcher at the Center for Studies in Higher Education at
the University of California, Berkeley (UCB), and affiliated with the Department of Molecular
and Cell Biology as an evaluator of its NSF Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU)
program. She is also the evaluator of a STEM program for underrepresented students at City
College of San Francisco. Her research areas for the past 20 years include the issues of access
and success of women and minorities in science in postsecondary education from first-year
community college students through faculty and leadership positions with a special focus on
graduate students. A significant part of this research is on discrimination and bias. She also
organizes and gives professional development programs for REU students by drawing on 20
years of experience creating and giving employment and professional development programs for
graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and undergraduates. She is finishing a book on minority
success in STEM Ph.D. programs and is developing an institutional evaluation of STEM
education in the California community colleges. Her work has been supported by NSF, the
Spencer Foundation, and the Max Planck Institute, among others. An example of her service on
campus is the Coalition for Excellency and Diversity at UCB, Science Seminar for
Underrepresented Minority Graduate Students; as an example of state service, she served with
the California Post Secondary Education Commission Gender Gap Project; and for national
service, she served as a reviewer for the National Institutes of Health, Sloan Foundation, NSF,
AAAS Center for Advancing Science and Engineering Capacity, and Planning Committee for
the 3rd Understanding Interventions Conference. A recent talk at UCB was titled "Federal
Support for Science in the Research University: The Social Consequences between 1947 and the
Present."
Shirley Malcom is head of the Directorate for Education and Human Resources
Programs of AAAS. The directorate includes AAAS programs in education, activities for
underrepresented groups, and public understanding of science and technology. Malcom serves
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on several boards, including the Heinz Endowments and the H. John Heinz III Center for
Science, Economics and the Environment, and is an honorary trustee of the American Museum
of Natural History. In 2006, she was named co-chair (with Leon Lederman) of the National
Science Board's Commission on 21st Century Education in STEM. She serves as a regent of
Morgan State University and as a trustee of Caltech. In addition, she has chaired a number of
national committees addressing education reform and access to scientific and technical
education, careers, and literacy. Malcom is a former trustee of the Carnegie Corporation of New
York. She is a fellow of the AAAS and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She
served on the National Science Board, the policy-making body of NSF from 1994 to 1998; from
1994 to 2001, she served on the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology.
Malcom received her doctorate in ecology from Pennsylvania State University; master's degree
in zoology from the University of California, Los Angeles; and bachelor's degree with
distinction in zoology from the University of Washington. She also holds 15 honorary degrees.
In 2003, she received the Public Welfare Medal of NAS, the highest award given by the
Academy. Malcom is a member of NAS.
Connie L. McNeely received a Ph.D. in sociology from Stanford University. She is
currently professor of public policy and co-director of the Center for Science and Technology
Policy at George Mason University. Her teaching and research address various aspects of
politics, organizational behavior, science and technology, governance, social theory, and culture.
Emphasizing comparative and historical perspectives, her work has engaged questions on
international development and organization and on issues related to race, ethnicity, nation, and
gender. She also has conducted research on education, science and technology, and health care,
and has ongoing projects examining cultural and institutional dynamics and matters of
citizenship and polity participation. McNeely is currently working as part of a larger initiative
on democratizing education in the United States and elsewhere and is principal investigator on a
major research project examining institutional outcomes and policy impacts on women in
science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in higher education. She is also active in
several professional associations, serves as a reviewer and evaluator in a variety of programs and
venues, and sits on several advisory boards and committees.
Bradley Miller, director of the ACS Office of International Activities, has worked for
ACS since 1999 developing programs, products, and services to advance chemical sciences
through collaborations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle East. At ACS,
the world's largest single disciplinary scientific society, he works to create opportunities for
chemistry to address global challenges through in-person and Web-based scientific network
development and research and educational exchange. In 2006, Miller was recipient of a NSF
Discovery Corps Fellowship to catalyze and sustain U.S. and Brazil collaboration in chemistry of
biomass conversions to biofuels. He has worked for university-based international programs, for
a higher education association focused on principles of quality assurance for transnational
educational offerings, and for a private voluntary organization dedicated to international allied
health sciences. With a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (and research interests and
experience in scientific, professional, and academic mobility), a master's degree from the
University of Northern Colorado, and a baccalaureate degree from the University of Virginia
Wise, Miller speaks French, Spanish, and Portuguese and has published nine articles and book
chapters.
Mariko Ogawa is the executive advisor to the president, director of the Support Office
for Women Researchers, and professor of history of science and science studies, Mie University,
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Japan. Ogawa's teaching and research interests are in the history of biology and medicine in 19th
century England and Germany, and in gender in science. She is the author of Uneasy
Bedfellows, Bulletin on History of Medicine (2000), The Mysterious Mr. Collins, Journal of
History of Biology (2001), Robert Koch's 74 Days in Japan (2003), Liebig and the Royal
Agricultural Society Meeting at Bristol, 1842 (2008), Feminism and Technology/Science (2001,
in Japanese), and Darwin Redux: Narrative in Evolutionary Theory (2003, in Japanese).
Recently, she has been engaged in several co-authored works and has translated many books into
Japanese, especially those relating to gender in science. With her translations, four excellent
books by Professor Londa Schiebinger, former director of the Clayman Institute, Stanford
University, are now available in Japanese.
Willie Pearson, Jr., is professor of sociology, School of History, Technology, and
Society, Georgia Institute of Technology. In 1993, he received Southern Illinois University's
College of Liberal Arts Alumni Achievement Award. He specializes in the sociology of science
and sociology of the family. He is the author or coeditor of six books and monographs and
numerous articles and chapters. His most recent book is titled Beyond Small Numbers: Voices of
African American Ph.D. Chemists (2005). Pearson has held research grants from NSF, National
Endowment for the Humanities, Sloan Foundation, and U.S. Department of Justice. He has held
postdoctoral fellowships at the Educational Testing Service and the Office of Technology
Assessment, U.S. Congress. He is a fellow of AAAS, and has served as a lecturer in Sigma Xi's
Distinguished Lectureship Program. He has served as chair of the Committee on Equal
Opportunities in Science and Engineering, NSF, and as chair of the Committee for Science,
Engineering and Public Policy, AAAS. In 2001, he was designated a lifetime national associate
of the National Academies. Currently, he serves on advisory committees in the Education and
Human Resources Directorate (NSF), the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, and NAS. His Ph.D. is
from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale (1981).
Angelica Salvi Del Pero is a policy analyst at the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD), where she is the administrator of the OECD Gender
Initiative, which aims at identifying the main barriers to gender equality in education,
employment, and entrepreneurship in OECD countries and other regions and assessing the
experience with policies to address these barriers. Before joining the OECD in July 2010, Salvi
Del Pero was a research fellow at Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, an Italian think tank, and a
consultant for the World Bank. She also held a postdoctoral position at the University of Pavia.
She has worked extensively on poverty and income distribution in developing countries, as well
as on firm performance and investment climate issues. Salvi Del Pero has taught various
economics courses at the University of Milan. Salvi Del Pero holds a Ph.D. in economics from
the University of Milan, an M.S. in economics from the University of WisconsinMadison, and a
B.A. in business and economics from the University of Turin.
Johanna (Anneke) M.H. Levelt Sengers is a native of The Netherlands where she
obtained her Ph.D. in physics in 1958. She immigrated to the United States in 1963 and made
her career at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Her expertise is in the area of
thermodynamics and critical phenomena in fluids, with application to industrial fluids. In
particular, she worked in an international context on standards for the properties of water and
steam on behalf of the electric power industry. She is the 2003 L'Oreal-UNESCO for Women in
Science Laureate for North America. Within the framework of InterAcademies Panel (IAP), the
Global Network of Academies of Sciences, she was the coauthor of the InterAcademy Council
Advisory Report Women for Science, which was adopted by IAP in 2006. She is currently the
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chair of the Women for Science Working Group of the InterAmerican Network of Academies of
Sciences (IANAS). She is a member of NAS and NAE.
Carol F. Stoel is a program director in Division of Graduate Education, Education and
Human Resources Directorate at NSF. Her program responsibilities at NSF include Ethics
Education in Science and Engineering, Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship
Program, and Science Master's Program.
Patricia Taboada-Serrano is the early-career representative in the Women for Science
Working Group of the IANAS. She received her Ph.D. in environmental engineering from
Georgia Institute of Technology in 2005. She was a postdoctoral research associate at the Oak
Ridge National Laboratory from 2006 to 2008. From 2008 to 2010, she served as an adjunct
professor in Bolivian Catholic University.
