Christopher T. Hill has been professor of public policy and technology in the School of Public Policy at George Mason University since 1994.

After formal education and experience in engineering, he spent more than three decades in practice, research, teaching, and consulting in science and technology policy, focusing on the history, design, evaluation, and politics of federal policies to stimulate commercial technological innovation. From 1997 to 2005, he was vice provost for research at Mason. He was a Public Policy Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in 2005-2006. Earlier, he worked with RAND, the National Academies, the Congressional Research Service, MIT, the Office of Technology Assessment, Washington University in St. Louis, and the Uniroyal Corporation. As a principal in Technology Policy International, he has consulted extensively with Japanese government agencies regarding industrial competitiveness and reform of R&D funding and higher education systems.

Hill has a B.S. from the Illinois Institute of Technology and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin, all in chemical engineering.

• The Post-Scientific Society (December, 2007)