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• 1958-1960 Research Associate, Department of Physics, University of Maryland
• 1961-1967 Research Associate, The Hudson Institute, Croton-on-Hudson, New York
• 1967-1968 Visiting Scholar, Resources for the Future, Washington, D.C.
• 1968-1976 Vice President, International Research and Technology Corpora-tion, Washing-ton, D.C.
• 1976-1978 Vice-President, Delta Research Corporation, Arlington, VA.
• 1979-1992 Professor, Engineering and Public Policy, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA.
• 1986-1990 Deputy-Leader, Technology-Economy-Society Program, IIASA, Laxenburg, Austria
• 1992-present Professor, Sandoz Chair in Management and the Environment, INSEAD, France.

Consulting and Professional Societies

• At various times has been a consultant to the White House, National Goals Commission, Office of Management and Budget, Transport Canada, OECD, UNEP, UNCTAD, UNIDO, ILO Statistics Canada, UN Statistical Office, CONSAD Research Corp. Member of American Economic Association, International Institute of Forecasters, Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, and Society for The History of Technology. He has directed and participated in major studies under grants or contracts from Resources for the Future, Brookings Institution, Conference Board, Ford Founda-tion, National Science Foundation, California Legislature, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Transportation, Department of Housing and Urban Commerce, Department of Labor, National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, Energy and Resources (Canada), Ministry of Interior (France), Ministry of Industry (France), Ministry of Environment (Federal Republic of Germany), and Business International Corporation, among others.

• He has served as a member of National Academy of Sciences Committee on Technology and Water, National Materials Advisory Board's Committee on Technical Aspects of Critical and Strategic Materials, the Highway Research Board Subcommittee on New Transportation and Technology, National Academy of Engineering's Task Group on Urban Services, National Academy of Science Committee on Steel Research and National Academy of Sciences Committee on Alternatives for the Reduction of Chlorofluor-ocarbon Emissions (CARCE). He is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of Ventana Corporation (Venture Capital Fund).

• During the period 1972-1976 he was principal consultant to the UN Statistical office (UNSO) for the development of a system of environmental statistics (SES).

• Associate Editor of Transportation Planning and Technology (Gordon and Breach), and has been, or now is a member of the Board of Editorial Advisors for European Business, Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Technology Assessment (Gordon and Breach), the Journal of Environmental Economics and Management (Academic Press), and Journal of Agriculture and Environment (Elsevier), Futures Research Quarterly, Human Factors in Manufacturing and Internation-al Journal of Energy-Environment & Economics.

Education

• University of Chicago, BA (1952), BS (1954), graduated in Mathematics
• University of Maryland, MS in Physics (1956), thesis on the structure of solid rare gases
• University of London, Kings College, 1956-1958, PhD in Mathematical Physics

Honors and Awards

• University of Chicago, merit scholarships, 1950-1954
• Phi Kappa Phi (Scientific Honorary Society), 1956
• Fellow and Member of the Council of the American Associate for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 1972
• Profiled in J.F. Coates & J. Jarratt "What Futurists Believe" (Lomond Publications, 1989)
• Association of Environmental & Resource Economists Award: "Publication of Enduring Quality", 1990.

Publications

• Extensive list of books, articles and reports separately available.

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