Mahmud Farooque

Associate Director, Consortium for Science, Policy and Outcomes (CSPO), DC; Clinical Associate Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society (SFIS); Arizona State University

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202 446 0397

1800 I Street, NW Washington, DC 20006

Biography

Mahmud’s work at ASU’s Washington Center focuses on linking science policy to better societal outcomes.

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 the principal coordinator of Expert and Citizen Assessment of Science and Technology (ECAST) – a distributive institutional network that brings together research centers, informal science education centers, citizen science programs and non-partisan policy think tanks to engage citizens on decision-making related to science and technology policy. He led large-scale public consultation projects on biodiversity, space, climate, and energy to support policy and decision-making at the national and global levels. His current public consultation projects involve Climate Change Resilience, Gene Drives, Driverless Cars, Geoengineering, and Gene Editing.

Mahmud was the Deputy Director of Policy Programs at the New York Academy of Science, Director of Collaborative Research at City University of New York, Associate Director for Research Development at Northwestern University, and Managing Director of USDOT Research Center at Purdue University.

Mahmud’s expertise focuses on innovation systems, research management, knowledge co-production, policy entrepreneurship, and participatory technology assessment.

CSPO Projects

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Karen L. Akerlof, Taryn Bromser-Kloeden, Kristin Timm, Katherine E. Rowan, James L. Olds, Chris Clarke, Elizabeth Ban Rohring, Emily Therese Cloyd, K. Curran, Elizabeth C. Duesterhoeft, Mahmud Farooque, Erica Goldman, Lisa Gring-Pemble, Stephanie E. Hampton, Sojung Claire Kim, John Kotcher, Darren Milligan, Carlos L. Muñoz Brenes, Cynthia Sandoval, Dann Sklarew, Cynthia Smith, Elizabeth Suhay, David Tomblin, Crystal Upperman, Andrew Wingfield & Xiaoquan Zhao 2021. "Categorizing Professionals’ Perspectives on Environmental Communication with Implications for Graduate Education." Environmental Communication.

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Kaplan, Leah, John Nelson, David Tomblin, Mahmud Farooque, Jason Lloyd, Mark Neff, Bjørn Bedsted, and Dan Sarewitz 2019. Cooling a Warming Planet? Public Forums on Climate Intervention Research.

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Bednarek A., Wyborn C., Cvitanovic C., Meyer R., Colvin R., Addison P.F.E., Close S.L., Curran K., Farooque M., Goldman E., Hart D., Mannix H., McGreavy B., Parris A., Posner S., Robinson C., Ryan M., and P. Leith 2018. "Boundary-spanning at the science-policy interface: The practitioners’ perspectives." Sustainability Science, 13(4): 1175-1183.

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Cockerill, K., Glynn, P., Chabay, I., Farooque, M., Hämäläinen, R., Miyamoto, B., and McKay, P. 2019. "Records of engagement and decision making for environmental and socio-ecological challenges." EURO Journal on Decision Processes, 7: 243–265.

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John S. Dryzek, Dianne Nicol, Simon Niemeyer, Sonya Pemberton, Nicole Curato, André Bächtiger, Philip Batterham, Bjørn Bedsted, Simon Burall, Michael Burgess, Gaetan Burgio, Yurij Castelfranchi, Hervé Chneiweiss, George Church, Merlin Crossley, Jantina de Vries, Mahmud Farooque, Marit Hammond, Baogang He, Ricardo Mendonça, Jennifer Merchant, Anna Middleton, John E. J. Rasko, Ine Van Hoyweghen, Antoine Vergne 2020. "Global citizen deliberation on genome editing." Science, 369(6510): 1435-1437.

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Research Projects

Future-Focused Deliberations on Human Genome Editing Global Citizens’ Assembly on Genome Editing