G. Pascal (Gregg) Zachary

Biography

Gregg Zachary joined the CSPO faculty in 2010. He works at the intersection of history, technological change, globalization and communications. He tracks science and technology policy at the national level and charts the relationship between technoscience, political economy and development at the international level, and relies on qualitative research methods in his field research in Africa. In his domestic policy analysis, he meshes historical literature, narrative storytelling and concise point-of-view essays for wide general audiences. With David Guston, he is preparing a new core course for the professional masters program. With Clark Miller, he is preparing Writing the Future, a course on fiction and technological assessment. He also teaches a course on Africa, technology and development, for the global technology program. Zachary is the author of four books, most recently Married to Africa. He worked as a senior writer for The Wall Street Journal for many years and has published widely on technological change since the early 1980s. He wrote a column on innovation for The New York Times and presently writes “The Scientific Estate” series for IEEE Spectrum.

Featured Publications:

•  Endless Frontier: Vannevar Bush, Engineer of the American Century, 1997. MIT Press: Cambridge, MA.

•     Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft, 1994. Free Press.

•     The Diversity Advantage: Multicultural Identity in the New World Economy, 2003. Westview Press: Boulder, CO.

•     “Black Star: Ghana, Information Technology and Development in Africa,” First Monday, Vol 9, No 3, March 2004.

•     “The Silver Lining to Impending Doom,” May 6, 2007, The New York Times.

Video:

•     Writer, Coderush: a year in the life of a Silicon Valley Supernova (PBS documentary, 2000)

Links:

•     Email: [email protected]

•     Personal website: www.gpascalzachary.com

•     My Africa blog: www.africaworksgpz.com