ANNE G. K. SOLOMON
CSP Senior Advisor on Science and Technology Policy
Anne G. K. Solomon serves as CSP Senior Advisor on Science and Technology Policy. Her professional work of over three decades has focused on research, innovation and related national and international policy issues. Ms. Solomon's current work is concerned with the foreign policy, economic and security implications of science and technology globalization. Prior to joining CSP, she was senior advisor for science and technology policy and director of the biotechnology program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Ms. Solomon began her career at the National Academy of Sciences directing the Committee on Scholarly Communication with the People's Republic of China during the early years of renewed U.S.-China ties. On leave from the Academy, she later served in the Office of Science and Technology Policy of the Executive Office of President Jimmy Carter where her responsibilities included developing the first U.S.-China science and technology agreement. She returned to the Academy to direct a bilateral U.S.-Japan dialogue and associated studies concerned with international technology competition and collaboration.
During the mid-1990s, Ms. Solomon served as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Science, Technology and Health at the Department of State, overseeing U.S. bilateral and multinational science and technology ties, international health initiatives and civilian and commercial health space activities. While at the Department of State, she also served as U.S. coordinator for international global positioning system (GPS) policy.
Ms. Solomon holds a M.P.A. degree from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and studied Mandarin Chinese at the Yale-in-China Center in Hong Kong, SAR. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.
Ms. Solomon writes and speaks widely in her field. Recent publications include Technology Futures and Global Power, Wealth and Conflict, published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies Press, and "The Global Positioning System" and "The Genesis of the Human Genome Project" in The Triumph and Tragedies of the Modern Presidency, edited by David Abshire and published by the Center for the Study of the Presidency.
Contact Ms. Solomon at 202-872-9800 or via e-mail.
