Jinnah, S., Dove, Z., Talati, S., Hayden, E. C., Siu, A., & Farooque, M. 2026. Building Capacity for Public Engagement on Solar Geoengineering. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.
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Mahmud Farooque
Associate Director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO); Clinical Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS); Arizona State University
[email protected]202 446 0397
1800 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20006
Biography
Mahmud Farooque is the Associate Director of the Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes, and a Clinical Professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University. Previously, he held research leadership positions at the New York Academy of Sciences, City University of New York, Northwestern University, and Purdue University.
Farooque is an expert scholar in participatory technology assessment (pTA), a reflexive, adaptable, and scalable method for engaging communities, stakeholders, and publics in social appraisal of science and technology. His expertise draws from science and technology studies, science of science, public administration, public engagement, and deliberative democracy.
Farooque leads the Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology (ECAST), a distributed network dedicated to research and applications of pTA. Since 2010, with support from public agencies and philanthropic organizations, he has overseen pTA processes on issues such as biodiversity, planetary defense, solar geoengineering, autonomous vehicles, human gene editing, nuclear waste management, and carbon dioxide removal.
Farooque’s current and past services include the editorial board of the Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice and U.S. National Academies’ committees focused on Building Institutional Capacity for Engaged Research, Building Impactful Collaborative Platforms in the Land-Grant System, and Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal. He is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
CSPO Projects
- American Science@250: Rethink, Reimagine, and Redesign »
- Building Informed and Involved Communities for Responsible Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal – A Workshop Series »
- Shared Principles for Community Collaboration in West Calcasieu Parish »
- Participatory Assessment and Governance of Climate Intervention Technologies »
- Establishing a Sociotechnical Approach to Fusion Energy Development »
- Arizona Consortium for Community Engagement, Innovation, and Learning on Collaborative Siting (CCEIL-AZ) »
- Carbon Dioxide Removal (CDR) Technology Public Forums and Application to Governance Frameworks »
- We the Internet: Citizen and Stakeholder Dialogues »
- Public Interest Technology Community Innovation Fellowship »
- Human Genome Editing Issue Guide »
- Our Driverless Futures: Community Forums on Automated Mobility »
- Exploring Democratic Governance of Solar Geoengineering Research »
- Science Center Public Forums: Community Engagement for Environmental Literacy, Improved Resilience, and Decision-Making »
- World Wide Views on Climate and Energy »
- A Participatory Technology Assessment of NASA’s Asteroid Initiative »
- World Wide Views on Biodiversity »
- Science, Policy and Citizenship Program »
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Borth, Amanda, Hostetler, Emily, Farooque, Mahmud, Hubert, Anna-Maria and Tomblin, David. 2026. The Climate Conundrum: Carbon dioxide removal technology public forums and application to governance framework – Interim report.
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Owens, J, Diem, S, Farooque, M, & Verma November 13, 2024. "Public Engagement and Participatory Design Preparedness: Adapting Participatory Technology Assessment Methods for Design Science." Proceedings of the ASME 2024 International Design Engineering Technical Conferences and Computers and Information in Engineering Conference, 6.
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Farooque, Mahmud. 2024. "Editorial, Malevolent creativity and civil security." TATuP, 33(2).
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Dorit Barlevy, Eric Juengst, Jeffrey Kahn, Jonathan Moreno, Lauren Lambert, Alta Charo, Hervé Chneiweiss, Mahmud Farooque, David H Guston, Insoo Hyun, Paul S Knoepfler, Cynthia Selin, Rebecca Wilbanks, Manar Zaghlula, Christopher Thomas Scott, 2024. "Governing with public engagement: an anticipatory approach to human genome editing." Science and Public Policy, 00: 1-12.
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