Colglazier Named New S&T Head at State Department

E. William “Bill” Colglazier is the new Science and Technology Adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

Colglazier, a theoretical physicist by training, most recently served as Executive Officer of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council (NRC). Previously he headed the NRC’s Office of International Affairs; was a physics professor and Director of the Energy, Environment and Resources Center at the University of Tennessee; and worked at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, and the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. In 1976-1977, he was a AAAS Fellow working for the late Congressman George E. Brown (D-CA).

The Office of Science and Technology Adviser to the Secretary of State was established in response to a 1999 NRC report. Norman Neureiter was the first S&T adviser to the Secretary of State from 2000-2003. He was followed by George Atkinson. Nina Federoff served in that position from August 2007 – July 2010.