Mahmud Farooque

Biography

Mahmud Farooque is the Associate Director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO), a Clinical Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS), and a Senior Global Futures Scholar in the Julie Ann Wrigley Global Futures Laboratory (GFL) at Arizona State University. He co-leads CSPO’s long-term efforts to build a community of practice among innovative R&D program managers in the government, non-government, and private sectors. These include convening informal and formal knowledge exchanges between program managers about the challenges and opportunities for innovating in path-dependent institutions.

Mahmud is an expert 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. Mahmud 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, Mahmud 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.

Mahmud serves on the National Academies Board on Environmental Studies and Toxicology and the editorial board of the Journal for Technology Assessment in Theory and Practice. He holds a PhD. in Public Policy from George Mason University and MPA from Syracuse University. Previously, Mahmud held research leadership positions at the New York Academy of Sciences, City University of New York, Northwestern University, and Purdue University.