We were very happy to have a three-member Advisory Committee working with us on the EURECIA research project.
The Committee kindly offered us quality assurance and provided rapid, high-level expert input on our research themes, concepts, approaches and outputs. Our Advisory Committee also informed our project’s direction and helped us where changes of direction were needed throughout the course of our challenging work. The Committee primarily met face-to-face with the EURECIA project team at our project meetings and has remained in touch with our key outputs as they have been developed in-between these activities.
The members of our Advisory Committee were Dr Chris Caswill, Ms Connie Chang and Dr Wilhelm Krull. You can read their brief backgrounds below.
Dr Chris Caswill
Dr Chris Caswill is currently based at the University of Oxford Saïd Business School, is a Visiting Chair in the Department of Politics at Exeter University, and has a Fellowship at University College London.
Chris is a Senior Policy Adviser to the EU NORFACE ERA-NET project linking the work of seven national Research Councils. Previously he was for fourteen years Director of Research at the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), and to the International Social Science Research Council in Paris.
Chris’ research interests include research policy, principal-agent theory, the European Research Area (ERA), the interactions between social science and society, participation and representation in the governance of scientific institutions, and social sciences/humanities futures in Europe.
Connie Chang
Connie K. N. Chang is now an independent consultant. She was recently Director of Ocean Tomo Federal Services, and before that spent 13 years in the U.S. Department of Commerce, including as Research Director and Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of Commerce for Technology. She also served as the Acting Director for TA’s Office of Technology Policy and spent 10 years at the former Advanced Technology Program (ATP) housed at TA’s National Institute of Standards and Technology where she led major evaluation studies and policy research projects. During her government career Connie gained a deep understanding of the science and technology policies and funding programmes of the European Union (and its member countries) and East Asia, and developed contacts with foreign officials in those countries. Before ATP, Connie worked on Wall Street for Credit Suisse First Boston.
Connie recently served as an appointed member of the International Advisory Board on Evaluation and Impact Analysis for VINNOVA, the Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems (2007-2009), and was Chair of the Board of Directors for the non-profit organization, AIRLEAP (the Association for Integrity and Responsible Leadership in Economics and Associated Professions). She is actively involved in the American Evaluation Association’s Research, Technology, and Development Evaluation Topical Interest Group and the Washington Research Evaluation Network. Connie has spoken at workshops sponsored by TAFTIE, the European Network of Innovation Agencies, and contributed to the Austrian led publication, Platform Research & Technology Policy Evaluation. She has also participated in the European Union Visitors Program.
Connie received a master’s degree in International Management and Comparative Politics (School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California, San Diego), a bachelor’s degree in Economics (Wellesley College), and has completed doctoral studies and qualifying exams in Political Economy and Science, Technology, and Public Policy (Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Political Science).
Dr Wilhelm Krull
Since 1996, Dr Wilhelm Krull has been running the Volkswagen Foundation – following his studies in German, philosophy, education and politics, an appointment as a DAAD lecturer at the University of Oxford, and leading positions at the Wissenschaftsrat (German Science Council) and at the headquarters of the Max-Planck-Gesellschaft (Max Planck Society). He is also a member of numerous national, foreign and international committees.
Wilhelm is currently the Chairman of the Board of the Foundation Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, a member of the Governing Board of the Central European University in Budapest, of the Scientific Advisory Commission of the State of Lower Saxony and of the Board of Regents of the Max Planck Institute for Biophysical Chemistry in Göttingen, the Max Planck Institute for Psychiatry in Munich, the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Potsdam and Hanover, and a member of the Board of Regents of the Fraunhofer Institute of Systems Technology and Innovation Research in Karlsruhe.
Wilhelm was honoured with the Leibniz-Medal of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz in 2001. From 2003 to 2005, he was chairman of the Hague Club, an association of some 25 major European Foundations. In 2004/05, Wilhelm was a member of a commission of experts for the evaluation of the Science Foundation Ireland. In 2005, he chaired the founding committee for the new Academy of the Sciences in Hamburg, and helped to formulate a framework for a future-oriented higher education and research system in Germany. From 2006 to 2008 Wilhelm chaired the Governing Council of the European Foundation Centre. He received the Swedish Order of the Polar Star in 2007. In 2008 Wilhelm was elected Chairman of the Bundesverband Deutscher Stiftungen (Association of German Foundations) and he was appointed Honorary Senator of the University of Konstanz in 2009.
Share: