Science and Technology in
United States Foreign Affairs

Copyright © 1999
by Robert G. Morris


APPENDICES


APPENDIX A.   Administrators of the Science Function at the Department of State

(C= Career Officer)
 
Edmund Gullion 1946 Special Assistant for Atomic Energy
(Later, title became Special Assistant for Atomic Energy and Space until 1962 when integrated with the Office of International Scientific Affairs.)
Caryl Haskins 1950 Science adviser in first science office (temporary appointment)
Herman Spoehr 1950 (temporary)
Joseph Koepfli 1951-3 Science adviser
1953-8 Vacant under Secretary of State Dulles
Wallace Brode 1958 Science adviser
Walter Whitman 1960
Ragnar Rollefson 1962 Director Office of International Scientific Affairs.  SCI
Edward Kretzman (C) 1964 Acting
Herman Pollack (C) 1964-7 Acting
Director Office of International Scientific and Technological Affairs
Thomas A. Clingan, Jr. 1974 Acting Asst Sec. OES
Dixie Lee Ray 1974 Assistant Secretary OES
Myron Kratzer (C) 1975 Acting Asst Sec. OES
Amb. Thomas Pickering (C) 1978
Thomas Malone 1981
Amb. John Negroponte (C) 1985
Frederick Bernthal 1987
Curtiss Bohlen 1989
Elinor Constable (C) 1993
Eileen Claussen  1995
Melinda Kimble (C) 1998 Acting

Deputy Assistant Secretaries for S&T Affairs, OES
 
 
John V. N. Granger (C) 1974
Oswald Ganley (C) 1975
Norman Terrell (C) 1978
Charles Horner  1981
Robert Morris (C) 1985
Amb. Peter Jon de Vos (C) 1987
John Boright (C) 1989
Anne Keatley Solomon

APPENDIX B.  United States Science and Technology Initiatives and Related Commitments

(Some initiatives were proposed more than once.)

NEW DIALOGUE WITH LATIN AMERICA

Focal point for technology transfer
Voluntary guidelines for exporters' code of conduct

SEVENTH SPECIAL SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY: 1975
1. Bilateral support for training to help LDCs find and exploit new energy sources.
2. International Energy Institute (with support of International Energy Agency and International Atomic Energy Agency)
3. Expanded capacity of international agricultural research  centers coordinated by the Consultative Group for International Agricultural Research
4. Support of U.S. legislation to expand university agricultural research
5. Organization (financed by the International Fund for Agricultural Development) to coordinate and finance improved productivity and competitiveness of nonfood agricultural and forestry products
6. International Industrialization Institute
7. International Center for the Exchange of Scientific Information
8. Bilateral support for appropriate technology
9. Support for the UN Conference on Science and Technology for  Development12

CONFERENCE ON INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC COOPERATION (CIEC): 1975-7
1. International Energy Institute
2. Voluntary code of conduct13
3. Technology Corps

UNCTAD IV: 1976
1. International Industrialization Institute; founders conference
2. International Energy Institute
3. Satellite technology (resource surveys, disaster monitoring, education); ATS-6 communications satellite demonstration
4. Water resources technology applications
5. Support for the UN Water Conference
6. Sharing of technology for deep seabed mining
7. Increased technical component in U.S. development programs in nutrition, health and education
8. International Center for the Exchange of Scientific and  Technological Information; cooperation of U.S. government  technical libraries
9. Support of UNCTAD technical advisory service-regional center concept14; increased training opportunities at the  International Industrialization Institute, the International Energy Institute and U.S. graduate schools
10. Curbing of emigration of students from LDCs
11. Technology Corps
12. Voluntary code of conduct15
13. Utilization of separate U.S. UNCTAD IV initiative, the  International Resources Bank, to foster technology transfer
14. Support for the elimination of restrictive business practices in technology transfer16
15. Setting the goals for the UN Conference on Science and  Technology for Development partly through a U.S. national preparatory meeting
16. More study of problems of technology transfer by OECD  countries

ORGANIZATION OF AMERICAN STATES (OAS): 1976
1. Preliminary consultations in the UN Economic Commission for  Latin America on the UN Conference on Science and Technology for Development, with strong U.S. participation
2. Technology Exchange Service (new name for Focal Point for Technology Transfer)
3. Cooperative-venture program for U.S. and Latin American small- and medium-sized firms
4. Increased use of the Commerce Department's National Technical Information Service
5. Consultative Group for Increased Access to Technology
6. Regional Technology Center

End of Appendices.


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