Dr. E. William Colglazier
Dr. Colglazier is Editor-in-Chief of Science & Diplomacy at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He served as Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State from 2011 to 2014. For seventeen years earlier he was Executive Officer of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences and National Research Council helping to oversee reports that advise the U.S. government and public. From 2016 to 2018 he co-chaired the Ten Member Group at the UN to advise on science, technology, and innovation for helping to achieve the 17 SDGs. He 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, the Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and as a professor of physics at the University of Tennessee. He is a Fellow of the AAAS, the American Physical Society, and the International Science Council. He serves on the International Advisory Board of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and for the U.S. National Academies he co-chairs the Global Science Diplomacy Roundtable and is a member of the Science and Technology for Sustainability Roundtable.