Alessandro Damiani has been Head of the Science, Technology and Education section at the Delegation of the European Commission in Washington, D.C. since September 2002.

A graduate of the University of Genoa, Italy, he initially worked in market research for the Italian Steel Industry. He began working in Brussels in 1981, first at the European Union’s Council of Ministers, then at the European Commission. In the early 1990s, Damiani was seconded from the European Commission to work in Rome, where he founded the Italian Agency for the Promotion of European Research and served as its first director. He has been involved in European research matters for more than 20 years, dealing mainly with policy design, priority setting, the decision-making process, and program management. Prior to assuming his post in Washington, D.C., he was Head of Unit in charge of the Research Framework Program (conception, preparation, negotiation, and coordination of implementation aspects).

• Era-Link: a Growing Bridge Across the Atlantic (April 19, 2006)
• Losing Dominance - Is the U.S. Lagging Behind in S&T? (July 20, 2004)

Paul Davey is currently a Kaleidoscope dissemination leader, responsible for development and implementation of the Kaleidoscope Network of Excellence marketing strategy and plans.

He is affiliated with the London Knowledge Lab and the Institute of Education, and has worked within and on behalf of the UK and European University sectors since 1999 in a variety of marketing roles. He is a member of the UK's Chartered Institute of Marketing and is a Chartered Marketer. During his spare moments he studies North Indian percussion and cycles wherever possible.

• Missing Links: the Future of Learning with Digital Technologies (September 28, 2006)

Philip J. Davis is professor emeritus at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island.

During his career he published numerous books on mathematics, which have gained international recognition, many of them being translated into several languages.

Davis received both his undergraduate and doctoral degrees from Harvard University in the field of pure mathematics.

• Mathematics as a Culture Clue - a Review of Rudolf Taschner's "Numbers at Work: A Cultural Perspective (April 16, 2007)

Frank Deeg is the Principal Adviser for Economic & Commercial Affairs at the European Commission Delegation in Ottawa, Canada.

He briefly worked as an engineer for various private corporations in the Netherlands and Canada before joining the Commission of the European Union at its Ottawa Delegation in 1977. In his current position Frank Deeg is responsible for monitoring and reporting on Canadian political, economic and industrial developments of relevance to the European Commission in Brussels. In addition, he has participated extensively for the past 27 years in the implementation of the 1976 EC-Canada Framework Agreement on Commercial and Economic Cooperation.

Deeg holds a B.A.Sc. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Waterloo, and a Master’s degree in International Affairs from Carleton University.

• EU-Canada S&T Relations (December 7, 2004)

Daniel D. Denecke is Director of Best Practices at the Council of Graduate Schools (CGS). 

He has served as faculty member at the University of Maryland, College Park and Georgetown University. He is also the co-author of the publication Ph.D. Completion and Attrition (2004), which reviews recent empirical studies on the topic, discusses the institutional factors that contribute to graduate-degree completion, and outlines salutary interventions and next steps for improving completion rates in graduate education. Denecke is currently directing the CGS Ph.D. Completion Project. Prior to working on this project, he managed the Preparing Future Faculty (PFF) program at CGS. In this capacity, he has worked extensively with graduate deans, faculty, and program directors to promote and institutionalize professional development programs for doctoral students aspiring to faculty positions. His personal research focuses on pedagogy, literature, and the rise of social science in nineteenth-century Britain.

Denecke received his Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.

• US Council of Graduate Schools and European University Association Joining Forces: a Transatlantic Dialogue on Doctoral Education (April 16, 2007)
• The Ph.D. Attrition Challenge in U.S. Graduate Programs (October 5, 2004)

Christoph Derndorfer is a member of OLPC Austia and co-editor at olpcnews.com.

For the past few years, he has contributed to a variety of online technology publications. Among other things, Derndorfer has planned and conducted extensive hardware reviews and has published articles and editorials on a Web site dedicated to small and power-efficient computer systems. This work has also allowed him to attend and cover leading industry events such as CeBIT, Computex, and VIA Technology Forum. He was an intern at the Office of Science and Technology from April to June 2008.

Derndorfer is currently working toward his bachelor’s degree in computer sciences from the Vienna University of Technology.

• One Laptop per Child – from a Vision to a Global Effort (July 1, 2008)
• Introducing Harald Kling – Collaboration across the Big Pond (July 1, 2008)
• Whozat? A New Approach to People Internet Searches: an Interview with its Founder Alex Baecker (April 28, 2008)

Chetan Dube has served as the President and CEO of IPsoft since its inception in 1999.

In this capacity, he is responsible for setting the strategic direction of IPsoft, and positioning it to be an emerging leader in the managed services industry. During his tenure, Dube has led the company to create a radical shift in the way IT is managed by employing advanced autonomic engineering, as opposed to labor arbitrage and manual processes. He has been involved in the genesis of virtualized delivery ecosystem which can provide infrastructure management services from a distributed grid of servers.

Dube is a widely recognized speaker on the topics of autonomic and utility computing, and recently gave the CASRO keynote address on the displacement of humans by expert systems. He is a trustee of the Dube Living Trust and serves on the board of numerous IT related institutions.

• The N Factor: How Efficient Networking Can Change the Dynamics of Your Business (July 12, 2007)

Francesco Duina is associate professor of sociology at Bates College and visiting professor at the Copenhagen Business School in Denmark.

His research and teaching interests include economic sociology, globalization, the nation state, the cultural underpinnings of trade, the European Union, South America's Mercosur, and NAFTA. Duina's recent publications include articles on the nature of law in the European Union, Mercosur and NAFTA (2006, 2004), national parliaments and legal authority in the European Union and Mercosur (2007, 2005, 2003), culture in the European Union (2002), the similarities between European Union and Mercosur law (2001), the drivers of European integration (2000), the relationship between the nation state and the European Union (1999), and the question of social contexts and legal implementation in the European Union (1997).

Duina holds a B.A. in political science and M.A in social sciences from the University of Chicago and a M.A. and Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University.

• A Review of Arno Tausch's Book "The City on the Hill" (June 29, 2006)