TPI Principals

David W. Cheney (managing partner) was the Director of the Center for Science, Technology and Economic Development at SRI International, focused on planning and evaluating science, technology, and innovation programs and institutions. From 1994 to 1997, he was a senior executive in the U.S. Department of Energy, serving as director of the Secretary of Energy Advisory Board and advisor to the Deputy Secretary on industrial partnerships and national laboratories. He previously worked at the Council on Competitiveness, and Congressional Research Service. He has been an adjunct professor in public policy at George Mason University and has also held positions with the Internet Policy Institute, the Optoelectronics Industry Development Association, the Competitiveness Policy Council, and the Institute for Policy Science at Saitama University in Japan. He has a PhD in public policy from George Mason University, a MS in Technology and Policy from MIT and a BS in Geology & Biology from Brown University.​ LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/david-cheney-4a44b25

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Christopher T. Hill is Professor Emeritus of Public Policy and Technology and former Vice Provost for Research at George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. After earning three degrees in chemical engineering and practicing in that field at Uniroyal Corporation and Washington University in St. Louis, he has devoted the past four decades to practice, research and teaching in science and technology policy, including service at MIT, the Office of Technology Assessment, the Congressional Research Service, the National Academy of Engineering, the RAND Critical Technologies Institute, and SRI International. Contact: christopher.hill@technopoli.net For full CV: http://spgia.gmu.edu/faculty-staff/faculty/christopher-t-hill/

LinkedIn: ​ linkedin.com/in/christopher-hill-a07a578

George R. Heaton, Jr. (previously managing partner) is a member of the faculty at the Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts and an independent consultant in science and technology policy, environmental policy and law. Trained as a lawyer, Mr. Heaton has been on the faculty of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and has worked widely for public and private technical and policy institutions in the U.S. and abroad. Maintaining extensive professional and personal relations in Japan, Mr. Heaton was a Visiting Professor at Saitama University in 1986-87 and the First Foreign Scholar of the Ministry of Health and Welfare in 1989-90.​

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Patrick H. Windham is a consultant and university lecturer on science and technology policy issues. From 1999 to 2012 he was a Lecturer in the Public Policy Program at Stanford University and more recently has taught at the University of California center in Washington, DC. From 1984 until 1997 he served as a Senior Professional Staff Member for the Subcommittee on Science, Technology, and Space of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate. He helped Senators draft legislation for several major civilian science and technology agencies and focused particularly on issues of science, technology, and U.S. industrial competitiveness. Mr. Windham received an A.B. from Stanford University and a Master of Public Policy degree from the University of California at Berkeley.​

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