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2009 Assembly of Society Officers - Speaker abstracts and biographies
She was also centrally involved in the development and passage of legislation (the America COMPETES Act of 2007) to promote federal investment in science and the development of innovative technologies. Dr. Clay has also served in positions with the staff of the Energy Subcommittee of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science, at the Massachusetts Division of Energy Resources, and as a research fellow in the Alternate Fuels Vehicle Division of Ford Motor Company.
Prior to her role with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. Flatten was with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the Department of Commerce, where she focused upon international telecommunications policy within multinational settings such as the International Telecommunications Union. Prior to joining the Federal government, Dr. Flatten held private-sector positions with high-tech corporations, serving as a technology consultant with AT&T Solutions and Booz-Allen & Hamilton. Along with her aforementioned full-time positions, she also held a faculty position (1995-2005) with the Johns Hopkins Part-Time Engineering and Applied Sciences Program, where she received the 2000 Excellence in Teaching Award. Dr. Flatten received her Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Engineering Science and Mechanics from the Georgia Tech, and a B.S. in Engineering Science and Mechanics from Virginia Tech.
Under Mr. Hagen’s leadership, the NMSO eliminated its accumulated deficit, established its first permanent endowment fund, built a cash reserve and enhanced the salaries of staff and musicians. During Kevin’s tenure the organization’s budget increased from $2.6 million to $5.3 million, the endowment grew from nothing to almost $6 million, ticket sales increased from $965,000 to $2.2 million, and annual giving went from $844,000 to $1.3 million. Mr. Hagen also led a successful $2 million capital campaign for a rehearsal/office complex. A graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison (BA) and the University of Cincinnati (MA-Arts Management), Kevin Hagen has received numerous honors and awards throughout his long and distinguished career. As Executive Senior Consultant with Stanley Weinstein & Co., Kevin Hagen is working on major gift initiatives, strategic planning processes, and capacity building services for a broad spectrum of educational, cultural, and social welfare organizations.
For more than a decade Eric has planned, directed, and supervised campaigns for educational, religious, social service and cultural organizations. Eric has extensive experience conducting feasibility and planning studies, development assessments, building campaigns, endowment campaigns, and annual campaigns. He has helped institutions strategize and solicit unprecedented major gifts, develop prospect management systems, craft strategic plans, recruit board and campaign leadership, and train board members, volunteers and staff. At CCS Eric has designed and facilitated numerous training courses for directing staff on major gift solicitation, strategy, and case statement and proposal development. Eric is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross. Eric, his wife Kristin, and their two daughters reside in Manhattan.
He has worked for university-based international programs, for a higher education association focused on principles of quality assurance for transnational educational offerings, and for a private voluntary organization dedicated to international allied-health sciences. With a Ph.D. from the University of Arizona (and research interests / experience in scientific, professional and academic mobility), a master's degree from the University of Northern Colorado and a baccalaureate degree from University of Virginia - Wise, Brad speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese and has published nine articles and book chapters. Brad and his wife, Rebecca, live in Gerrardstown, WV.
Dr. Osman received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees in Materials Science and Engineering from Case Western Reserve University and has authored over 25 articles on topics including commercial and social impact of nanomaterials, materials for nuclear power, computational materials science and engineering, product development and mechanical metallurgy.
Since joining the AGU staff he has both managed the Union and given of his ideas and energy to the community of societies and associations in the US and with more focus on the Earth and space sciences around the world. He served as president of the Council of Engineering and Scientific Society Executives. In publishing he was one of the triumvirate, that started the Society for Scholarly Publishing; he served on the committee that conceived the Copyright Clearance Center and with 2 other colleagues established the Public Issues Task Force of the Association of American Publishers. He did not neglect the meeting industry either. He was appointed to the Convention Liaison Council and chaired that all industry group in the early ‘80s. He also chaired the first Board for the Certification of Meeting Professionals which set the criteria and requirement for that certification which is highly sought today.
Prior to joining AAAS, Dr. Tannenbaum worked as a Senior Research Analyst for the Federation of American Scientists. He worked extensively on the FAS paper Flying Blind; this paper explores ways to increase the quality and consistency of science advising to the federal government. Before joining FAS, Dr. Tannenbaum served as the 2002-2003 American Physical Society Congressional Science Fellow. During his Fellowship, he worked for Representative Edward J. Markey (D-MA) on nonproliferation issues. Before his Fellowship, Dr. Tannenbaum worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles. At UCLA, he was involved in the Compact Muon Solenoid experiment at CERN, in Geneva, Switzerland, and the Collider Detector Facility at the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory outside Chicago, Illinois. He received his Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of New Mexico in 1997. His dissertation involved a search for evidence of supersymmetry. None was found.
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Dr. Kathryn Clay is the Director of Research for the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. Previously, she served as a member of the professional staff of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee. While on the Committee, Dr. Clay worked to develop the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 and the Energy Policy Act of 2005. 
Amy Flatten is serving as Director of International Affairs of the American Physical Society (APS), where she develops international scientific exchanges, collaborations, and partnerships with physicists around the globe. Prior to joining APS, Dr. Flatten served for five years with the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), where she managed international S&T initiatives involving government, academia, and industry on behalf of the U.S. President's Science Advisor during both the Clinton and Bush Administrations. 
Kevin Hagen comes to consulting after twenty-eight years as a senior manager of multimillion dollar nonprofit organizations nationwide, culminating with nine years as Executive Director of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra. He has an acclaimed record of success in fundraising, strategic planning, marketing, management, financial planning and analysis, human resources, labor relations, and public relations.
John S. Haynes began his career as a research chemist with a PhD from the University of British Columbia, followed by a distinguished postdoctoral fellowship at Oxford sponsored by the Canadian National Research Council. Then, he made a transition to scientific publishing. John spent 17 years at the Institute of Physics Publishing (IOPP) in Bristol, UK, serving from 1992 to 2001 as publisher of an impressive suite of physics journals published by the IOPP, and from 2001 to 2007 as head of Business Development. For the last two years, John has been the editorial director of the Royal Society of Chemistry, where he has been implementing the organization’s five-year plan that includes new journal development and the establishment of international offices. Along the way, he earned an MBA, honed his skills in a whole array of business models for scientific publishing, and led efforts in international outreach. 
Eric B. Javier is a Regional Vice President with CCS, one of the most comprehensive and widely recommended fund-raising consulting and management firms in the world. Established in 1947, CCS designs and implements significant fund-raising campaigns and programs for leading non-profit institutions.
Colin McCormick is a project director with the Strategic Security and
Building Technologies programs at the Federation of American Scientists.
Before coming to FAS, he was a professional staff member with the House
Science and Technology Committee focusing on technology policy, and he
worked on the development and passage of the America COMPETES Act. Colin
spent his OSA/MRS Congressional Fellowship in the office of Rep. Ed Markey
(MA), working on nuclear nonproliferation and homeland security. He
received his PhD in atomic and optical physics from the University of
California, Berkeley in 2003, and did post-doctoral work in quantum optics
at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
Matt McKeon is a developer with the Visual Communication Lab at IBM
Research in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His interests include building usable
platforms for social data analysis, designing tools to support
Internet-enabled communities, and moving information off of the screen and
into the world around us. His past work has included building collaborative
and ambient visualization systems for finance, health care and military
applications as well as studying their use in the field. Matt earned his MS
in Human-Computer Interaction at Georgia Tech.
Bradley Miller, Director of the American Chemical Society (ACS) Office of International Activities, has worked for ACS since 1999 developing programs, products, and services to advance chemical sciences through collaborations in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. At ACS, the world’s largest single disciplinary scientific society, he works to create opportunities for chemistry to address global challenges through in-person and web-based scientific network development and research and educational exchange. In 2009, Miller was appointed to co-chair the ACS International Year of Chemistry Staff Working Group. In 2006 Miller was recipient of an NSF Discovery Corps Fellowship to catalyze and sustain US/Brazil collaboration in chemistry of biomass conversions to biofuels. 
Todd M. Osman became Executive Director of MRS in September 2008. Prior to joining MRS, Dr. Osman was instrumental in the creation of The Pennsylvania NanoMaterials Commercialization Center, serving as a founding Board member, co-authoring the Center’s Technology Roadmap and chairing the Center’s Technical Advisory Group. Dr. Osman has also served as Technical Director for The Minerals, Metals and Materials Society (TMS) and spent 11 years at United States Steel Corporation as a researcher and technical manager. At U. S. Steel, he was responsible for research and development activities for coated steel products, won awards for his original research and was awarded a United States Patent. In addition, he coordinated cooperative R&D programs with suppliers, customers and universities in Europe and Asia.
Dahlia Sokolov is the staff director for the Subcommittee on Research and Science Education of the House Committee on Science and Technology. Dahlia joined the S&T Committee staff as an American Institute of Physics Congressional fellow in October 2004 and joined the professional staff in July 2005. For the two years prior to joining the Democratic staff, she served on the Energy Subcommittee working on nuclear energy R&D under then-Chairman Sherwood Boehlert’s leadership. Before coming to the Hill, Dahlia completed a two-year postdoctoral research fellowship at the National Institutes of Health in the Radiation Oncology Sciences Program. She has a Ph.D. in Bioengineering from the University of Washington and a B.S. in Engineering Physics from U.C. Berkeley. Her graduate research was on the physics and bioeffects of shock-wave driven cavitation. 
Fred Spilhaus was immersed in international science within a month of
starting his new employment as the Assistant Executive Director for
AGU. He served from 1 September 1970 through 23 February 2009 as
Executive Director. During his tenure AGU grew enormously in numbers,
resources, program, and stature worldwide. Fred was well positioned
for the challenges of AGU. His father, an infamous
meteorologist/oceanographer brought up in South Africa and Europe was
a strong influence and his own stint at MIT collecting degrees in
chemical engineering, geology and geophysics, and oceanography led to
a 2-year “post doc” in a US federal agency that gave him a rare view
of the world and a strong interest in the science being done around
our planet and why.
Benn Tannenbaum is the Associate Program Director at the Center for Science, Technology and Security Policy. Dr. Tannenbaum works on a variety of projects for CSTSP, including drafting policy briefs, tracking legislation, serving as liaison with MacArthur-funded centers and the security policy community, organizing workshops and other meetings, attending Congressional hearings and conducting topical research. He testified before the House Homeland Security Committee on radiation portal monitors. Tannenbaum also serves on the American Physical Society's Panel on Public Affairs and on the Program Committee for the Forum on Physics and Society. He has authored or co-authored over 160 scientific and policy-related publications.
Josh Trapani joined the Bipartisan Policy Center in 2008. Previously, he
was an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Science & Technology Policy Fellow on the Policy Analysis staff of the
USDA Forest Service, where his work focused on climate change adaptation
and mitigation in forest ecosystems. Prior to that position, Josh was
the American Geophysical Union's Congressional Fellow, working for
Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) on public lands, climate change, and
other science issues. Josh received a B.A. in anthropology and a B.S. in
geology from the State University of New York at Binghamton, an M.S. and
Ph.D. in geology from the University of Michigan, and spent two years as
a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Colorado. Josh also holds
a Research Collaborator position with the Department of Paleobiology at
the Smithsonian Institution. His research took him to sites throughout
the U.S., as well as to Mexico and the Omo Valley of Ethiopia. He has
published a dozen peer-reviewed papers, as well as essays on science and
policy. 