Speakers

Jim Turner began working in January 2009 for the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges as a consultant on energy policy. This follows a career of over 30 years working for the House of Representatives, 29 of which were on the Professional staff of the Committee on Science and Technology which he first joined in 1977 and returned in 1984 after three years in the private sector.

Jennifer Poulakidas serves as Vice President for Congressional and Governmental Affairs at the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges. At NASULGC, Jennifer works closely with the leadership of NASULGC’s 215 member institutions, especially the government relations officials of those universities, to promote public higher education’s positions to Congress and the Executive Branch on matters of science and research, student affordability and access, innovation and competitiveness, and internationalization, among other issues of importance to public universities.

Biographies

Jim Turner began working in January 2009 for the National Association of State Universities and Land Grant Colleges as a consultant on energy policy. This follows a career of over 30 years working for the House of Representatives, 29 of which were on the Professional staff of the Committee on Science and Technology which he first joined in 1977 and returned in 1984 after three years in the private sector. Most recently Jim was the Science Committee’s Chief Counsel and worked acrossthe board on the Committee’s legislative agenda, which has jurisdiction over non-defense federal scientific research and development. From 1985 through 1994, Jim was the Committee’s senior staff member for technology policy. In the 1970s and early 1980s, Jim served the Committee as an energy counsel. Jim has also worked for Wheelabrator-Frye, Congressman Gary Myers, NASA, the FAA, and the State of Connecticut and served on the Presidential Transition Teams of Presidents Clinton and Obama.

Jim has been honored by over a dozen scientific and technical professional societies. In 2009 he has been chosen to receive the Bayh-Dole Award of the Association of University Technology Managers and an Award of Appreciation from the American Association for Engineering Education. In 2008 he received the Ronald E. Brown, Jr. Standards Leadership Award on World Standards Day and was made an honorary fellow of the American Society of Civil Engineers. In past years, he has been honored by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the National Institute of Building Standards, the Virginia Engineering Foundation; the Federal Patent Lawyer Association, the American Mathematical Society, the American Society for Testing and Materials, the American National Standards Institute, the Technology Transfer Society, the US Metric Association, the US Arab Chamber of Commerce, and the Federal Laboratory Consortium.

He currently serves on several boards at the University of Virginia including the Board of Trustees for the School of Engineering, the President’s Advisory Board for the Heinz School at Carnegie Mellon University, the Advisory Board for MIT Press’s journal Innovations, and the Boards of Directors for the American National Standards Institute and Oak Ridge Associated Universities. He received a BS in Mathematics from Westminster College, an MDiv degree from Yale University, a JD from Georgetown University and attended the Senior Managers in Government Program at Harvard.

In 2006, Jennifer Poulakidas joined the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges (NASULGC, A Public University Association) where she serves as Vice President for Congressional and Governmental Affairs. At NASULGC, Jennifer works closely with the leadership of NASULGC’s 215 member institutions, especially the government relations officials of those universities, to promote public higher education’s positions to Congress and the Executive Branch on matters of science and research, student affordability and access, innovation and competitiveness, and internationalization, among other issues of importance to public universities.

Prior to joining NASULGC, Jennifer was legislative director for science and research issues of the University of California’s Federal Governmental Relations Washington, DC office. During her 11 years at UC, Jennifer enjoyed active engagement with the federal science and research advocacy community. In her new role at NASULGC, she continues her close work with various coalition efforts, such as the Task Force for the Future of American Innovation, The Science Coalition, the Ad Hoc Group for Medical Research Funding, and the Coalition for the Advancement of Medical Research (CAMR, the stem cell coalition). She has served as CAMR’s Vice President for Legislative Affairs since 2004.

A native of San Francisco, Jennifer’s DC career began on Capitol Hill when she served California’s 8th Congressional district and her hometown as a legislative aide to Congresswoman Nancy Pelosi (D-CA).

Public universities have played prominently in Jennifer’s own education: she received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology from UCLA and a Master in Public Affairs from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin.

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