Speaker: Dr. E. William Colglazier, Former Science & Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State
Title: Science and Technology Diplomacy in an Era of Disruption and Conflict
Bio: Dr. E. William Colglazier chairs the Committee on International Scientific Affairs of the American Physical Society and the U.S. Liaison Committee for the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics.
He retired in 2024 as Editor-in-Chief of Science & Diplomacy and Senior Scholar in the Center for Science Diplomacy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). From 2011 to 2014. he was Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State, and for seventeen years prior was Executive Officer of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council overseeing reports that provide independent, objective advice to the U.S. government and public.
Dr. Colglazier received his Ph.D. in theoretical physics from Caltech in 1971, and worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and as Professor of Physics at the University of Tennessee.
From 2016 to 2018, he co-chaired the Ten Member Group appointed by the U.N. Secretary General to advise on science, technology, and innovation for advancing the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, the American Physical Society, and the International Science Council.
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