CHARLES VEST, TASK FORCE CHAIRMAN
Charles M. Vest has been president of MIT since 1990. During this time he has placed special emphasis on enhancing undergraduate education, exploring new organizational forms to meet emerging directions in research and education, building a stronger international dimension into education and research programs, developing stronger relations with industry, and enhancing racial and cultural diversity at MIT. He has also devoted considerable energy to bringing issues concerning education and research to broader public attention and to strengthen-ing national policy on science, engineering, and education. In this latter capacity, Dr. Vest has served as a member of the President's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST), the Massachusetts Governor's Council on Economic Growth and Technology, and the National Research Council Board on Engineering Education. In addition, he chaired the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Advisory Committee on the Redesign of the Space Station. He chairs the U.S. Department of Energy Task Force on the Future of Science Programs and is Vice Chair of the Council on Competitiveness and immediate past Chair of the Association of American Universities (AAU). He sits on the board of directors of both IBM and E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Company. As a member of the mechanical engineering faculty at MIT, Dr. Vest has research interests in the thermal sciences and the engineering applications of lasers and coherent optics.

JOHN BALDESCHWIELER
John Baldeschwieler received a degree in Chemical Engineering from Cornell University in 1956 and in 1959 a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry from the University of California, Berkeley. His military service in the U.S. Army was followed by five years of teaching and research as a member of the faculty at Harvard University. In 1965, he moved to Stanford as Professor of Chemistry. During his last two years at Stanford, he was on leave of absence as Deputy Director of the Office of Science and Technology in the White House. From 1973 until the present, Professor Baldeschwieler has been at the California Institute of Technology as Professor of Chemistry, and for five years also as Chairman of the Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. A Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, Dr. Baldeschwieler also served on a large number of national, scientific and advisory committees. He most recently served as Co-Chairman of the National Science Foundation-US Intelligence Community Workshop On Approaches to Combating Terriorism. He was a founder of Vestar Inc. and served as Chairman of its Board of Directors until it was merged with NeXagen Inc. to form NeXstar Pharmaceuticals. He served as a Director of NeXstar until it was acquired by Gilead Pharmaceuticals Inc. He was also a founder and Director of Combion Inc. until it was acquired by Incyte Geonomics, Inc. He serves as a Managing Member of The Athenaeum Fund, and as a Director of the Huntington Medical Research Institutes, as well as several privately held companies. Dr. Baldeschwieler pioneered the utilization of nuclear magnetic resonance and double resonance spectroscopy, nuclear Overhauser effects, ion cyclotron resonance and perturbed angular correlation spectroscopy in chemical problems. He received the 2000 National Medal of Science for his contributions to science and public service and the American Chemical Society 2001 Award for Creative Invention.

ALFRED R. BERKELEY, III
Alfred R. Berkeley III was appointed Vice Chairman of the Nasdaq Stock Market, Inc. on July 27, 2000. Since 1996, Berkeley had served as President of Nasdaq. Prior to Nasdaq, he was Managing Director and Senior Banker in the Corporate Finance Department of Alex.Brown & Sons, Incorporated, financing computer software and electronic commerce companies.

Alfred Berkeley joined Alex, Brown & Sons in 1972 as a research analyst. He became a general partner of Alex, Brown in 1983. From 1985 to 1987, he served as Head of Information Services for the firm. In that capacity, he was responsible for all corporate information services, including both the firm's back and front office technology. Mr. Berkeley then moved to Alex, Brown's Merger and Acquisition department where, from 1987 to 1989, he developed the firm's technology practice. Mr. Berkeley served as a Captain in the United States Air Force from 1968 to 1972. He is a graduate of the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania (MBA, 1968) and the University of Virginia (BA, 1966). He is a Trustee of Johns Hopkins University and the Nature Conservancy.

ROBERT BIRGENEAU
Robert Birgeneau received his BSc in mathematics from the University of Toronto in 1963 and his PhD in physics from Yale in 1966. Professor Birgeneau was on the faculty of Yale for one year and then spent one year at Oxford University through the National Research Council of Canada. He was a member of the technical staff at Bell Laboratories from 1968 to 1975, then joined Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a professor of physics. In 1982 he was named Cecil and Ida Green Professor of Physics. In 1988 he became chair of physics department, and in 1991 was appointed MIT's dean of science. On July 1, 2000, he was named the 14th President of the University of Toronto, Canada's leading research university.

Birgeneau's research is primarily concerned with the phases and phase transition behaviour of novel states of matter. These include one and two dimensional magnets, liquid crystals, physisorbed and chemisorbed surface monolayers, clean metal and semi-conductor surfaces, graphite intercalates, highly disordered magnets and most recently, lamellar CuO2 superconductors. Birgeneau has received many honours for his research. In 1987 he was awarded the O.E. Buckley Prize of the American Physical Society, and in 2000, the J.E. Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society. Birgeneau, who is one of the most highly-cited physicists in the world, was elected to the Royal Society of London in 2001 and the Royal Society of Canada in 2002.

JAMES DUDERSTADT
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M.R.C. GREENWOOD
M.R.C. Greenwood is Chancellor of the University of California, Santa Cruz, a position she has held since July 1, 1996. In addition to her position as Chancellor, Dr. Greenwood also holds a UC Santa Cruz appointment as Professor of Biology. From November, 1993 to May, 1995, Dr. Greenwood held an appointment as Associate Director for Science at the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) in the Executive Office of the President of the United States. In addition, she was responsible for interagency coordination, and co-chaired two National Science and Technology Council committees.

Chancellor Greenwood is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences, a past President and Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), and of the California Academy of Sciences, is a member of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Science Advisory Board, and a member Governor Gray Davis' Council on Bioscience. She was a member of the National Science Board from 1997 to May, 2002, and was Chairman of the Office of Science and Engineering Policy Advisory Board of the National Research Council. She has been honored by numerous organizations for her contributions to science and science policy.

Dr. Greenwood graduated summa cum laude from Vassar College and received her Ph.D. from The Rockefeller University. Prior to her UC Santa Cruz appointments, Chancellor Greenwood served as Dean of Graduate Studies, Vice Provost for Academic Outreach, and Professor of Biology and Internal Medicine at the University of California, Davis. Previously, Dr. Greenwood taught at Vassar College where she was the John Guy Vassar Professor of Natural Sciences, Chair of the Department of Biology, and Director of the Undergraduate Research Summer Institute.

RAY R. IRANI
Ray Irani is chairman and chief and chief executive officer of Occidental Petroleum Corporation, a position he has held since 1990. Prior to joining Occidental in 1983 as chairman and chief executive officer of the company's chemical division, he had served as president and chief operating officer of Olin Corporation. Dr. Irani is the recipient of numerous awards and honors including the American Institute of Chemists' 1983 Honorary Fellow Award, Polytechnic University's 1988 Creative Technology Award, and the Chemical Marketing Research Association's 1990 Man of the Year Award. In 1992, he received the CEO of the Year Bronze Award from Financial World magazine and the Americanism Award from the Boy Scouts of America. In 1993, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor Award and the City of Hope's Humanitarian of the Year Award. More recently, he received the University of Southern California's 1997 Asa V. Call Achievement Award and the Volunteers of America's 1998 Marco Polo Award. Dr. Irani also was a member of the President's Export Council from 1994-2001 and currently serves as vice-chairman of the board of the American University of Beruit as well as a trustee of the University of Southern California. He also is a director of the American Petroleum Institute and a member of the National Petroleum Council. Dr. Irani holds a B.S. degree in chemistry from the American University of Beruit and a doctorate in physical chemistry from the University of Southern California. He holds more than 150 U.S. and foreign patents and is the author of various technical publications including the book Particle Size.

STEVEN KOONIN
Steve Koonin is provost of the California Institute of Technology, where he also holds the position of professor of theoretical physics. In 1999, he received the prestigious Ernest Orlando Lawrence Award in Physics from the U.S. Department of Energy. Early in his career, he was a research fellow at the Neils Bohr Institute (1976-77), an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellow (1977-79), and received the Humbolt Senior Scientist Award (1985). Dr. Koonin is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and has served on a number of advisory committees for the National Science Foundation, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Defense and its various national laboratories. Dr. Koonin is a fellow of the American Physical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He received his B.S. in physics from the California Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

LEON LEDERMAN
Leon Lederman is Pritzker Professor of Science at Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. He is Director Emeritus of the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory. Formerly, Dr. Lederman was Eugene Higgins Professor at Columbia University. He is the recipient of many distinguished awards including the Nobel Prize for Physics for 1988, National Medal of Science, the Wolf Prize, the Townsend Harris Medal from City University of New York and the 1993 Fermi Award. Dr. Lederman also was elected a National Science Foundation fellow, a Guggenheim fellow, and a Ford Foundation fellow. He was the director of Nevis Laboratories and served as guest scientist at Brookhaven National Laboratories as well as the CERN Laboratory in Geneva. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and the American Physical Society. He is a member of National Academies in Finland, Mexico and Argentina. He chairs the board of the Teachers Academy for Math and Science in Chicago as well as the board of the Illinois Math and Science Academy. He received his undergraduate degree from the City College of New York and his doctorate from Columbia University.

DR. MODESTO A. MAIDIQUE
Dr. Modesto A. Maidique is the fourth president of Florida International University (FIU). Appointed in 1986, Dr. Maidique is the longest serving public university president in Florida. Located in Miami, FIU is a public research university with and enrollment of 32,000 students and over $60 million in sponsored research. FIU is, along with Berkeley and UCLA, one of the nation's three top producers of minority baccalaureates. Dr. Maidique holds a Ph.D. in solid state physics from MIT and is a graduate of the PMD program at the Harvard Business School. He has served as a member of the faculty at MIT, Harvard, and Stanford. He is a world-renowned authority on the management of high technology enterprises. Throughout his career in both the corporate and academic worlds, Dr. Maidique has been involved with high technology firms in a variety of capacities: as an executive in high technology firms; as a director for multinational high technology giants; and as professor and lecturer. Dr. Maidique was appointed by former President G. H. W. Bush to his Education Advisory Committee and was recently appointed by President George Bush to his Education Transition Panel.

WILLIAM F. MARTIN
William F. Martin is chairman of Washington Policy and Analysis and chairman of the Energy Security Group of the Council on Foreign Relations. He previously served as deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Energy and executive secretary of the National Security Council. Mr. Martin was also special assistant to President Reagan, responsible for the president's Head of State meetings. Prior to government service, Mr. Martin was an energy economist with the MIT Energy Laboratory and special assistant to the executive director of the International Energy Agency. He has written extensively on energy security issues, most recently, "Maintaining Energy Security in a Global Context," (Trilateral Commission, l997). He is a member of the board of the World Resources Institute. In l992, he was executive director of the Republican Platform Committee and served as senior advisor for platform process for the Bush-Cheney 2000 campaign. Mr. Martin holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania (B.S.) and MIT (M.S.).

PETER McPHERSON
Peter McPherson became the president of Michigan State University in 1993. Prior to assuming the presidency at MSU, McPherson was a group executive vice president at Bank of America. He was deputy secretary of the Treasury, administrator of the Agency for International Development, and special assistant to President Ford. He was the managing partner of the Washington office of a large Ohio law firm. McPherson serves on the board of Dow Jones and Company and is the Chairman of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board.

STEVE PAPERMASTER
Steve Papermaster is the Chairman of Powershift Ventures LP, an Austin, Texas based technology venture development company focused on building software and technology companies. He currently serves on the boards of directors for several public and private companies.

In 2001 President George W. Bush appointed Mr. Papermaster a member of the President's Council of Advisors in Science and Technology (PCAST). In this capacity, Steve serves as Chairman of the Energy Committee, as well as being a member of the Technology for Combating Terrorism Committee. He is also the founder and chairman of Technology Network Texas (TechNet), a national high-technology advocacy group for policy issues and is a member of the National Executive Committee.

Prior to founding Powershift Ventures, Mr. Papermaster was the founder, chairman and CEO of BSG Corporation, a global software and systems integration company. He began his career as a consultant with Andersen Consulting.

Mr. Papermaster received the 1996 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in Austin and has served as a national and world judge for the Entrepreneur of the Year awards since 1997. In 2001 he served as the United States' judge for the World Entrepreneur of the Year award. Steve is active as a community leader with organizations such as the American Cancer Society, the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation, the Jewish Community Center, and the 360 Summit.

Mr. Papermaster received a Bachelor of Business Administration in Finance with highest honors from the University of Texas at Austin.

DEBORAH WINCE-SMITH
Deborah L Wince-Smith became president of the Council on Competitiveness in December 2001. A Senior Fellow at the Council since 1993, she is a nationally recognized expert on science and technology policy, innovation strategy, technology commercialization, and global competition. She serves on boards, committees, and policy councils of numerous nonprofit organizations, including the University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory, the Council of the Woodrow Wilson Center, and the University of California Review Committees for Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. In addition, she serves on the President's Council on the National Laboratories of the University of California. The nation's first Assistant Secretary for Technology Policy in the Department of Commerce, Ms. Wince-Smith served on White House policy councils, chaired the Interagency Committee on Federal Technology Transfer, and directed the President's National Technology Initiative. She has also held positions in the White House Office of Science and Technology and with the National Science Foundation. A graduate of Vassar College with a master's degree from King's College, Cambridge University, Ms. Wince-Smith is trained in classical archaeology and has performed archaeological fieldwork in Greece, Pakistan, and Afghanistan.